Word: tiara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening's coup de théâtre is the drag ball that opens Act II. Lavishly costumed for a kind of inverts' Mardi Gras, the imperial army's top officers cavort in the home of the Baron von Epp. Dennis King plays the role in tiara and gown, and flutters an imperious fan with the regal disdain of a queen of players. At no other point does the play rise to this level of theatricality. Salome Jens adorns the evening physically as a Russian Mata Hari, but she delivers her lines like a fishwife...
PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN is part dear-diary journal and part dusty political imbroglios, but mostly a record of a woman who also happened to be Queen Victoria. Dorothy Tutin wears the role like a tiara, moving from a spoiled child of power to a yielding, sensuous wife to a desolate widow with the fatigue of existence in her voice...
Broadway PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN is part documentary chronicle, part dear-diary journal and part dusty political imbroglios, but mostly a record of a woman who also happened to be Queen Victoria. Dorothy Tutin wears the role like a tiara, moving from the spoiled child of power to the yielding, sensuous wife to the desolate widow with the fatigue of existence in her voice...
...more durable than the British Empire. The stage has become her throne and she has moved from history into legend. For Helen Hayes, the role was the apex of an acting career. For Dorothy Tutin, 37, whose dramatic resources are rich, varied and unspent, it is more like a tiara worn with casual ele gance. William Francis' Portrait of a Queen, which opened on Broadway last week, is not so much a play as a pastiche-part documentary chronicle, part dear-diary journal, part dusty archive of political feuds. Most attractively, it is also a touching and human record...
...Empress' tiara, fortunately, was safe in the bank vault when the jewel thieves struck. But there had been an uneasy moment last year when Sonny's wife No. 3, Eleanor Searle Whitney, told a columnist that the tiara was a gift Sonny had bought for her. Marylou would have none of it. Said she: "Sonny bought it as an investment. And I must say, the pleasure of wearing it is delicious...