Word: rosita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot of Juniper and the Pagans is, admittedly, and old bromide. In John Patrick's play, a consistently unsuccessful priest named Brother Juniper comes with his niece Rosita to Santiago de Gante, a Mexican village devoid of faith. At first scorned by the populace, Juniper restores the Catholic Church by wresting the town's people's patron saint, a chrome-plated cowboy called Santiago, from the evil General Braga, who runs a resort for the "canape-eaters" where a monastery once stood. Rosita, meanwhile, falls in love with Pepe, the local atheist, and accepts him when he finally sees...
Edward Atienza is amusing as old, deaf Don Vasco, and Mario Alcalde and Ellen Madison are appropriately exuberant as Pepe and Rosita. Oliver Smith's set is striking, and the sound effects are both unusual and effective...
...Sutton Square, in Paris' Faubourg St.-Germain and the Riviera's St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. On both sides of the Atlantic he is a lavish and witty host to society and royalty. Socialites, politicians, ambassadors and industrialists come to admire his golden-eyed. part-Cherokee wife Rosita (the eighth best-dressed woman in the U.S.), his superb table and cellars, and his tastefully decorated walls (three dozen major works by Renoir, Matisse, Degas, Modigliani, Picasso, Goya...
There are very few places he hasn't visited. He has been seen on Boston's newspaper row, and mingling with the seagulls on the city waterfront; he has gotten a shave and a steambath at local establishments; he has been tete-a-tete with Miss Rosita Royce backstage at the Old Howard; he has visited the Russian delegation in New York City; and, in between, he has occasionally been found on top of the Lampoon building at 44 Bow Street...
Also included this month is Richard Eder's translation of Garcia Lorca's "Song" from the play Dona Rosita La Soltera. Light in metre and ethereal in imagery, the piece is too frilly to be effective...