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...imperious mother Sophie. Eventually, the vivacious queen declared a kind of independence, becoming the adored champion of the cause of home rule for Hungary, traveling incessantly: now to England to ride after hounds, now to Turkey to explore Schliemann's diggings at Troy. She even translated Shakespearean plays into modern Greek. Primping and dieting narcissistically, Elisabeth remained an international beauty until she was 60, when she was killed by an Italian anarchist while boarding a steamer on Lake Geneva...
...Ford, which the President might welcome. Adds Constitutional Scholar Philip Kurland of the University of Chicago: "Depending on the committee's makeup and its financing, it could be very effective. Sam Ervin [who is retiring as a Senator] could be hired as counsel." There is a satisfying Shakespearean symmetry to the whimsical thought that the man responsible for many of the early Watergate chapters might get a chance to write the last one as well. In any event, someone must do it before, as Ford said, the book can be truly and well closed on Watergate...
Juliet is the more acute problem of the two, but on rare occasions a teenage actress has conquered the role. The redoubtable Fanny Kemble began a long Shakespearean career with a triumphant debut as Juliet at 19. Adelaide Neilson made her debut in the part at 17 and became the most popular Juliet of the latter half of the 19th century. And in our own century Phyllis Neilson-Terry started playing the role at 18, to wide acclaim...
Roberta Maxwell, who has had considerable Shakespearean experience both here and elsewhere, is a pretty enough Juliet. But she does not make a sufficiently youthful impression. Furthermore, her vocal range is far too narrow for a part that is above all else lyrical and musical to an extreme. And sometimes her pace is too leisurely. She does have two fine moments: in her "Come, night" speech, her anticipation of Romeo's arrival erupts into an unabashedly erotic embracing of her bed; and she effectively manages the psychological changes in her phial soliloquy. On the whole, though, this "fair Juliet...
...faulty arithmetic aside. A 20th season is reason enough to celebrate. The AST has aptly just kicked off with Twelfth Night, a work often chosen for special occasions. Tyrone Guthrie used it to inaugurate Canada's Stratford Festival, and it was the first Shakespearean play ever to be televised in its entirety from a theatre. It is probable that Shakespeare wrote the play for an important Twelfth Night entertainment at Queen Elizabeth's court. The year of its first performance is in some dispute, but such a superlative achievement had to have come after the two other romantic comedies...