Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mistaken identities, and ends with a happy resolution of the whole mess. The satire is aimed directly at both the pretensions of monarchy and the stupidity of the levellers who would supplant it. Except with Shakespeare and G & S, kings tend to set one yawning, but the Duke of Plaza-Toro and the King of Barataria are rollicking good fun. The brunt of the satire falls on the Gondoliers themselves, however, and their attempts to run the principality of Barataria according to the maxim that "all departments are equal and every man is the head of his department" provide hilarious...
Special credit is due Arthur Waldstein as the Duke of Plaza-Toro and to his whole entourage, including John Bernard as his attendant, Alison Keith as the pompous Duchess, and Marjory Harper as the daughter, later Queen of Barataria. Waldstein is nothing short of hilarious as the somewhat down-at-the-heels Duke. Alison Keith, who is well-known to Cambridge audiences, is an excellent actress who possesses a fine comic opera voice. John Bernard has an extremely able voice and he appeared quite natural in his role as drummer-boy, later King of Barataria. As his beloved, Marjory Harper...
...During the next few weeks, with FBI agents lurking in the background, Cheasty passed Hoffa a clutch of committee documents, and Hoffa turned over bundles of bills in return. In all, it added up to $3,000. When the agents nabbed him one evening in Washington's Dupont Plaza Hotel, Jimmy was carrying in an inside coat pocket a document that Cheasty had handed him a few moments before...
Fatherland Week, as the holiday is called, was the kind of glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club...
Died. Paul Starrett, 90, co-founder (1922) and longtime board chairman of Starrett Brothers (later Starrett Brothers & Eken), builders of the Empire State Building and such other Manhattan landmarks as the Flatiron Building, Pennsylvania Railroad Station and the Plaza, Commodore and Biltmore hotels, as well as luxury hotels in other cities throughout the U.S., and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; in Greenwich, Conn...