Word: sybillants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Dame Sybil Thorndike, 93, grande dame of the British stage; of a heart attack; in London. The witty, compact daughter of an 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...
While Actor Richard Burton continues his sellout run in the Broadway play Equus, Daughter Kate Burton, 18, has staged her own theatrical debut. Kate, a Brown University freshman whose mother is Richard's first wife, Sybil Christopher, speaks six lines in her college's production of Look Homeward, Angel."I don't know if I'll continue acting," she says. "I'm just doing it for fun right now." Papa Burton, 50, seems less tentative about his daughter's future. "She's not interested in going into the theater," he asserts...
...swollen and puffed up; I looked like a Frankenstein monster," complained Astrologer-Author Sybil Leek, recalling her visit to South Carolina last November. Scheduled to address a convention of auto executives, Sybil had stopped by the Hilton Head Inn pool beforehand "for a few deep breaths of good air." The seer failed to see a stream of gas from a rusty chemical cylinder, however, and instead of air, inhaled some escaping chlorine. The result, says Astrologer Leek, was a case of chemical pneumonia, a four-day hospital stay and two months of severe headaches. Forgoing mystical incantations, the astrologer last...
...Lives is organized in an unusual and precarious manner for a situation comedy: a threadbare plot is sprinkled with "life-lines" (guffaw-inducing one-liners) for the major characters, Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, and occassional emergency appearances of the play's idiotic and insufferable secondary characters (Victor Prynne, Sybil Chase, and Louise). The first act introduces the entire plot: Amanda and Elyot, once married and later divorced, fall in love again while honeymooning with their newly found spouses, Victor and Sybil--two cretin-like characters representing the very best in English shallowness. There is no further development of plot...
...guilty verdict on Mitchell and Stans is also a loud and clear guilty verdict for the press. Thank God for Forelady Sybil Kucharski and the eleven other typical Americans on this jury...