Word: salm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the scene switches to Ida's university at Castle Adamant, however, the show begins to lag. In playing the princess, Beth Ellen Salm has a most difficult job, which may explain why she falls so flat. As written, the would-be feminist princess sounds like a selfsatisfied prig, and Salm's portrayal reinforces that impression. When her assistant Lady Blanche (Linda Bielski) mocks Ida behind her back, the audience sympathizes. Lady Blanche, at least, keeps the audience awake by putting the orchestra to sleep with a song/philosophy lecture. Bielski, a professional actress, is easily the show's best female...
...distinct from mere building). His particular inspiration was one structure, a Roman temple known as the Maison Carree at Nimes in the south of France. All the architectural work he had admired during his years as American Minister to France from 1785-89 -- Pierre Rousseau's Hotel de Salm, the Pantheon, the mock ruins of the Desert de Retz, the designs of dead masters like Andrea Palladio and living architects like Etienne Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux -- would leave their traces in his own designs, but the Maison Carree was decisive for American architecture as a whole. By copying...