Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help of an array of the latest electronic aids, but his plans for using a satellite navigational system were nixed by the race's sponsors, the London Observer and the Royal Western Sail Club. Like Colas's ship, the quadrennial race has grown monstrously since Sir Francis Chichester beat out four competitors in his 39-ft. boat in 1960. In this year's race, 125 entries, including ten Americans and four women, set sail June 5 on the arduous course...
...Anglican canon, Dame Sybil insisted that she cared "not a blessed hoot about stardom." Between her first appearance onstage in 1904 and her last, in 1970, she gave thousands of performances, many of them with London's famed Old Vic repertory and her actor-director husband, Sir Lewis Casson. Her favorite role: the boisterous peasant revolutionary in Saint Joan, which George Bernard Shaw wrote expressly for Dame Sybil...
...attempts in the past to rectify the situation. Apart from those that suggested sheer violence, the only sensible approach was to bring in a fleet of London taxis, which are wondrously compact and comfortable, can turn on a tuppence, and come equipped with diesel engines and drivers who say "Sir," "Madam," and "Thank you." Some New York operators experimented with a London cab in Manhattan eight years ago, but rejected it when they discovered that the passengers enjoyed the ride...
Adapting classic Viennese operetta to dance has been the dream of Sir Robert Helpmann, 67, the Australian Ballet's director for 50 years. The idea is a seductive one. The operetta, of course, has dancing in it. The score is filled with mellow waltzes and Hungarian folk tunes, complete with mandolins and castanets. The trap for a choreographer lies in Lehar's melodies, which enhance the voice like exquisite garments that are no longer made. No steps danced to Vilia are satisfying, because memory hears a soprano singing...
...brief period since he set himself up in a Bel Air mansion, Simon, now 48, has not only survived but scored mightily. His new movie, Murder by Death, starring Truman Capote, Sir Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, Peter Sellers and David Niven, will open later this month, and by all advance reports it is one of Simon's best pictures. His new play, California Suite, a sort of Plaza Suite West, starring George Grizzard and Tammy Grimes, played to cheering houses in Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theater for six weeks. The show was such a hit that it has already...