Word: queen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joyce Redman plays at the level of the script, in tragedy-queen style with plenty of pedal; and whether right or not for Anne, is completely right for Anderson...
...lady and went on triumphantly as Violet. Ever since, except for a brief spell of discouragement when she thought of becoming a speech teacher, Olivia has pursued her profession with the same energy and bounce that led her high-school class to predict that she would become a "circus queen...
...Playwright Anderson has made a plump and gaudy stage piece, a thing of fierce desires, clashing wills, momentous acts. For love or lust of Anne, Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon, broke with Rome, opened an age of bloodshed; while the insolent and ambitious Anne would be Henry's queen or nothing at the start, still his queen or nothing at the end-preferring, in Mr. Anderson's account, the block to banishment...
...Countess Granville, sister of Queen Elizabeth, who cooed that her grandnephew was "golden-haired, with a most beautiful complexion . . . couldn't be more angelic looking," and had "amazingly delicate features for so young a baby...
...much for its professors as for its president. There was George Santayana, the strange Spaniard who complained as much about Harvard and "the taste of academic straw" as Adams did.. There was Barrett Wendell, who looked as if he might have stepped out of the court of Queen Elizabeth; pudgy Josiah Royce ("the Rubens of Philosophy," William James called him); and Philosopher George Herbert Palmer, who once told a student: "It will hurt nothing at your age to have a nervous breakdown. As a matter of fact, I sometimes think it would be a good thing . . ." And there...