Word: perdita
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...theater. Inevitably, Alex steps through Playwright Bliss's looking glass, when she goes to work for him as his secretary. Bliss is an homme fatal, one of those men three-quarters of whose present consists of past. But Alex keeps calm till Geoffrey casts a luscious peeress, Lady Perdita Carne, in his medieval spectacle play Ludovic II. The soap operantics of Ask Me No More are made palatable by a knowing re-creation of the London theater, lively dialogue that is often outrageously punny ( "Anouilh, get your gun"), and a couple of cocktail party scenes laced with name-dribbling...
Inga Swenson is a charming adolescent Perdita, who has the loveliest speech about flowers in the English tongue. Richard Easton and Will Geer are appealing as her princely suitor and her foster-father shepherd...
...complete play of Shakspere's, The Winter's Tale, basks in the the golden glow of the master's genius; the sweet country air runs all through it, and few, if any, of his plays leave a pleasanter picture in one's memory. "As long as men can think, Perdita shall brighten and sweeten, Hermione ennoble, mens' minds and lives...
Married. Lady Perdita Asquith, granddaughter of the late great Earl of Oxford & Asquith, goddaughter of Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (who was present at the wedding); and Capt. Hon. William George Hervey Jolliffe of the Coldstream Guards; in London...
...fell in love with her immediately, swept her off her feet. But their engagement grew longer & longer. When he got a flatteringly good job in Zurich Clive wanted Rachel to marry him and go there, but she refused to leave her mother, broke off the engagement. When he married Perdita instead, Rachel thought she could not stand it, but soon found her Mission made up for everything. As it must to all men & women, Death came at last to the unconscious hulk of her mother. Then Rachel was out of a job, but she soon found another and settled down...