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...designs of Audry Cruddas, for one thing, are nothing if not stylish. Her costumes (lots of trim uniforms) are more or less Edwardian, which is the fashionable period nowadays for doing sixteenth century drama. Her sets are attractively simple: the throne room is two chairs and a scarlet canopy against a black background, and the queen's bedroom is an ottoman and a great scarlet-canopied bed against the all-prevasive black. The scenes of hurried conspiracy after the Play Scene are done mostly on a bare, black stage swept with light across the front, as if to show that...
...Scarlet O'Hara's a spoiled pet, She wants everything that she can get The one thing she can't get is Rhett...
Upstairs in the White House, Dwight Eisenhower and his lady delayed their entrance until the arrival of the tardy (by 15 minutes) Tunisian ambassador. When the ambassador had joined the throng in the East Room, the President, in white tie and tails, and Mamie, in a scarlet net gown set off by a heart-shaped diamond pendant, came down to greet the 78 guests and launch the most important diplomatic social function of the year...
...their assent. Immediately, messengers fan out to deliver the biglietto-the letter informing each cardinal-elect of his elevation (tradition demands that he feign surprise on receiving the letter). Two days later the new cardinals join the Pope at an "intimate" consistory, during which he hands each one the scarlet biretta. Then comes a public consistory, at which old and new cardinals mingle and the Pope presents the galero-the round, flat red hat which is the traditional symbol of the cardinalate. Last of all is another secret consistory, at which the new cardinals get their rings and are assigned...
...King, a typical court quack was John of Gaddesden (probably Chaucer's "verrey parfit practisour"). John went so far as to publish a list of ailments that, financially, were beneath his notice. His gaudiest feat: curing Edward I's son of smallpox by swaddling the boy in scarlet robes, confining him to a room hung with scarlet drapes, claiming that the color's influence turned the trick. The 17th century court physician had less brass. When France's young Louis XIV caught syphilis, the doctors were too spineless to tell him (or anyone else). They also...