Word: portia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laurinda Barrett was an admirable Portia, and Robert Blackburn a forceful Bassanio. But Basil Langton failed to give much color to the title role of Antonio...
Kilty is handsomely assisted by William Roberts' monumental two-story unit set, representing a corner of Venice, complete with tessellated pavement and an animal-head fountain spouting water. The wall beneath inverted-V stairways folds out to transplant us to Portia's greenery-bedecked residence at Belmont. Gilbert Helmsley, Jr. has designed some fine lighting...
Laurinda Barrett makes an admirable Portia, in both the latter's personae; and Olive Dunbar is a model Nerissa. Joyce Ebert's Jessica is attractive but vocally uneven...
...Portia stumbled out of the doorway and riverward with a shudder. Through the crowd of tennis racquets. sweat socks, low leers and pared fingernails, she plowed to the Charles. And, stepping lightly to avoid the couples seeking those several stolen seconds, she advanced to the banks and squatted to reflect on the floating refuge and the distant sails...
...drifted toward Martha's Vineyard; others that she was cut down in a frisbee cross-fire and buried at the Business School. A few are known to whisper of a midnight motorcycle kidnap and a shotgun wedding over two steins at Nick's (that's South of here). But Portia Parsley is now a legend, murmured at midnight over English muffins in the Bick, and remembered sometimes at a Yard punch. She never returned to North Dakota...