Word: regales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play belongs to Miss Tutin. In the final act, without benefit of makeup sorcery, she and Victoria edge into old age. The fatigue of existence enters her voice, slows her step, dims her eyes like a patina. It is an august portrayal of a Queen who is regal without being pompous, naive without being stupid, romantic without being sentimental...
...monarchy the coup de grace, De Gramont suggests, was a new power, a new style setter: public opinion. "My infallible Queen," Jacques Necker, one of Louis XVl's Finance Ministers, called it in a switch of fealty. Public opinion, influenced by Voltaire and a prestigious literary antiEstablishment, made regal style seem dated and absurd even to aristocrats...
...highlight of his trip was a visit to the Palace at Monte Carlo where he and the other swimmers were guests of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace at Monaco. Somehow the Prince and Princess discovered that Krause was celebrating his 16th birthday. They gave him a regal party complete with cake and fireworks...
...despair, and what comic spirit there is has been muffled in this Manhattan production by the APA Repertory Company. A 90-minute mood piece on the palpable fear of approaching death, the play has been given a sleepy rather than springy staging by Director Ellis Rabb. Instead of displaying regal authority and a poignant awareness of death, Richard Easton as the king mopes, whines and stumbles about the stage in tattered melancholy, a sort of counterfeit Lear...
...best film performances (Electra, Zorba the Greek), Irene Papas, playing Clytemnestra, is an actress of chained intensity. She bears herself with the regal poise of a statue by Praxiteles. Though her brows are as dark as doom, her profile is chiseled in luminous Pentelic marble. What she brings to Iphigenia is something that seldom exists on any stage: the adrenal flow of a mother's love and grief. When Clytemnestra learns that Iphigenia cannot be saved, she utters a howl of desolation that seems to be torn from her womb, as if a cycle of pain that had begun...