Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DROP OF ANOTHER HAT brings an antipodal pair, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, back to Broadway with a jaunty, sly revue in what they call the "theater of kindness." They scramble their comic omelet with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth...
...came along, Scofield signed up with ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association), Britain's equivalent of the U.S.O., and for the next two years played Shakespeare, Shaw and O'Neill. Later, he joined the Memorial Theater in Stratford on Avon, which has since grown into the pre-eminent Royal Shakespeare Company. He and Peter Brook are co-directors of the group although Scofield's chief function is that of spokesman "for the actor's point of view...
...performs in two productions a year. "I reached the point," he says, "where it was time to do less-not to make less effort, but to put that effort into fewer plays." The current play for this season is Charles Dyer's Staircase, now running at the Royal Shakespeare's London theater...
...care: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow." Inevitably, a few eggs are laid in the making of a comic omelet, but Flanders and Swann scramble their humor with such pixy princeliness that it becomes a royal banquet of mirth...
...protect them against enemies and intruders after death, Egypt's pharaohs were entombed with their treasures in cleverly concealed chambers deep with in their monumental pyramids. Most of these royal burial vaults have long since been discovered and looted, but some archaeologists suspect that others still lie undisturbed behind tons of lime stone and granite blocks. Egypt's pyramids may soon yield their remaining secrets. In a speech before the American Physical Society last week, University of California Physicist Luis Alvarez reported that his ingeniously conceived project to peer into the pyramids with cosmic rays is about...