Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lest anyone get the impression that airline stewardesses are losing their allure, the Cantegril Country Club in Punta del Este, Uruguay, has just completed its second annual "Queen of the Airline Hostesses" contest, which drew 13 beauties from as far away as India. Winner: Jill Spavin, 25, an American Airlines stewardess who spent two weeks before the contest lounging around Punta del Este in a bikini, destroying the judges' recollection that last year's winner, Patty Poulsen, had also flown American. Jill currently works the New York-Los Angeles run, but no one dares guess how long...
...Queen Victoria has proved to be considerably more durable than the British Empire. The stage has become her throne and she has moved from history into legend. For Helen Hayes, the role was the apex of an acting career. For Dorothy Tutin, 37, whose dramatic resources are rich, varied and unspent, it is more like a tiara worn with casual ele gance. William Francis' Portrait of a Queen, which opened on Broadway last week, is not so much a play as a pastiche-part documentary chronicle, part dear-diary journal, part dusty archive of political feuds. Most attractively...
...profile in fealty. Victoria attributes to her subjects the same faith, loyalty and affection which she feels to wards her beloved consort, Prince Albert. Whether the Light Brigade is charging blindly to its doom at Balaklava or Londoners are weeping helplessly in the streets at the Queen's Diamond ubilee, they are doing precisely what Victoria would have done if the roles had been reversed. The simplicity of her self-concern is disarming. She is like a spoiled child of power, too unsophisticated not to tell it as it really was. Even her coronation is reduced to precise physical...
...woman rather than the Queen who dominates the play. As Tutin interprets the role, Victoria is capricious, arbitrary, petulant and vulnerable to the men around her. The principal man in her life is Albert, a prickly foreigner, a controversial figure to press and public, but the lord of Victoria's heart. It was Albert, not Victoria, who was so all-fired prim and proper that the term Victorian was saddled on her era as a synonym for Puritan rigidity...
They say it (or the like) again and again in Hasty Pudding Theatricals No. 120. "All the Queen's Men" is as exuberant and flashy as ever, with an even snappier score than one has a right to expect from HPT, but the usual tastelessness has this year been joined with witlessness. The book is a sloppy pastiche of Audio Lab ads. It bites...