Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story-involving an exiled Hungarian nobleman returning to claim his father's estate, a beautiful gypsy maid who is really a princess, a treasure buried on the land of a rich and comic pig farmer -is a typical operetta mixture of farce and romance. Unfortunately, Director Ritchard and his cast could not quite make up their minds whether they were working for laughs or for sentiment. And for reasons best known to himself, Translator Valency had his Hungarians rising in a patriotic revolt against Austrian oppression (the 74-year-old original involved merely a musical-comedy war against Spain...
...were Local Banker Walter Bimson and Insurance Man George Bright, a recovered TB victim. Able, young Museum Director Forest Melick Hinkhouse, 34, soon had donations and art rolling in, ranging all the way from Van Dyck's Portrait of Charles I and Tintoretto's Portrait of a Nobleman to such modern works as Karel Appel's Portrait of Count Basie, John Hultberg's From a Car and Richard Diebenkorn's Woman by a Window...
...Harvard University associate professor is writing plays. "The Agamemnon" was printed in 1952 in "Botteghe Oscure," a magazine run by an Italian nobleman who lives on a "street of dark shops." Then the play was published in book form, and it will be produced in New York in the fall...
...this, of course, takes us far from the lecherous nobleman of Mozart and da Ponte, with his thousand and three mistresses. (One suspects that the Don Juan story figures in the play less as its actual inspiration than as a unifying device, a splendid resource for theatrical and intellectual trickery, and a handy handle to pick the whole thing up by.) It was not the sexual aspect of Don Juan that interested Shaw primarily. (Indeed, it was not the sexual aspect of anything, even of sex, that interested Shaw primarily, in spite of occasional protestations to the contrary.) "Philosophically," says...
...intact down the centuries by a mixture of polygyny and polyandry. To safeguard their ancestral estate, three brothers will often share a single wife, and all children are considered to be fathered by the eldest of the brothers. Recently, a highborn Lhasa woman was simultaneously married to a local nobleman, to the Foreign Minister of Tibet, and to the Foreign Minister's son by another wife...