Word: orford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highest praise must go to the principals. The generally high quality of both singing and acting fully compensates for the absence of big names. Brian Sullivan sings the tenor role of Grimes with understanding realism, and Ellen Orford, the widow schoolmistress, is touchingly played by Polyna Stoska...
Only Ellen Orford, the widowed village schoolteacher, gives him comfort. His ambition is to live down his unpopularity, make money (to buy respectability), and marry Ellen. Sings Captain Balstrode, a retired merchant seaman: "Man-go and ask her. Without your booty, she'll have you now." Sings Peter: "No-not for pity!" Balstrode replies: "Then the old tragedy is in store: new start with new 'prentice, just as before...