Word: regente
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Carry On. Of the eleven regents listed in the university's bulletins from Chillicothe, four deny that they ever agreed to serve. When one man refused to be a regent, Belin simply made him a "trustee" without bothering to tell him. The bulletins list a law school, but there was no one to staff it. Though 100 engineering courses are listed, there is only one man in the "college of engineering," and the faculty of the journalism school is one journeyman printer. A student from Greece who went to Belin after reading its glowing account of its premedical program...
...wife Buffie, is home-grown and thrives on achievement. Trim and smart (dresses by Dior and Balenciaga) at 56, Buffie Chandler first dived energetically into public life in 1935 as a volunteer at the Los Angeles Children's Hospital, inevitably became a trustee. Inevitably, too, she became a regent at the University of California, almost singlehanded rescued the foundering Hollywood Bowl concerts, collected civic committee chairmanships like baubles on a charm bracelet. It was she, says her husband, who steered the Times into its long war on the great Los Angeles blight: smog. "Buff and I were driving downtown...
...child in a tantrum. Siebert gave a sensitive interpretation of Troilus, showing an understanding of his composite personality. Regina Oliver was commendable as Cassandra, although she needed more variety of voice. William Harris, as Cressida's father, suffered most from overacting and a reliance on stick gestures. The Prince Regent, Hector, was strongly reminiscent of Marshall Tito, but needed a more imperial air. Paris was overplayed as an asinine nincompoop by Gardiner Tillson. Among the minor characters were three very good Palace soldiers of which Sol Schwade was outstanding...
...always fat and fatuous, the sometime companion of Sheridan and Fox who adorned as well as tarnished a picturesque society. His maudlin lament, after Charlotte's death, that he can father no royal line, seems both needless and out of character in the father of Regent Street and Regent's Park, the Brighton Pavilion and Waterloo Place...
...writing has neither period gloss nor better-than-period glitter, and Tyrone Guthrie's staging shows best in small touches. As long as the title role keeps to a bright musicomedy level, with the Regent preening himself, or riding a rocking-horse, or struggling with his stays, Walter Slezak's Regent has all Walter Slezak's mischievous charm. But, for all Actor Slezak's avoirdupois, the characterization lacks body because of the writing. With its famous characters and historic occasions, the play is fun enough to look at, but wearisome to listen...