Word: tra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...composer and lyricist could have presented a happier and more seasonable combination than the delightful Victorian couple. The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la, are perfect in themselves, but when they are sung to Sir Arthur's music the result is the incomparable gaiety and freshness of a season that, alas, seems all too tardy in arriving--which reminds one that The Mikado is still wandering somewhere between New York and Boston, and that Spring is unofficial until Winthrop Ames has sent his latest revival to lead those bored with sophistication to the Plymouth...
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...three men whom she tried to improve-Arthur, who cheerfully sidestepped; Lancelot, who fought and loved nobly but then fell; Galahad who rode away in righteousness-the last was her masterpiece. Lancelot finished his days in a monastery, more bluntly honest than ever and utterly perplexed by the last tra-edy his honesty precipitated, the suicide of the "lily maid" of Astolat, the second Elaine, whose proposal, made in tenderest neurotic innocence, so astonishingly echoed her unhappy namesake...