Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England Conservatory. But for the American première of Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave, in Santa Fe, N. Mex., the soprano sang the role of the old battle-ax aunt to Alan Titus' young Owen. Letting out all the stops, Steber, done up in Victorian rig, calls her nephew a coward for not following in the family's military tradition. How did it feel to play the heavy for a change? "A character part like this is not new to me," she explained, "because I've always been a character...
...snapshots and more formal portraits had been assembled somewhat irreverently in a paperback album, As They Were, by Sylvia Topp and Tuli Kupferberg. Little Walter Cronkite sported short pants and big ears; Sammy Davis Jr. at three looked like a refugee from Our Gang; Marlene Dietrich was demurely Victorian, with a tiny heart-shaped locket and crossed ankles. As a baby, Baby Dr. Benjamin Spock wore a wide-brimmed hat, a Gerber smile, and a handsome diminutive pair of buckled Mary Jane shoes...
...Scapegrace's editor), this yarn is a thorough, almost scholarly pastiche of Victorian lingo and manners. It fairly reeks of historical authenticity-and of blood-for Flashman, in his early 30s, is still his old bully self, a lucky coward and a genial sadist...
...occasionally drowned out dialogue) and his decision to cut Wilde's final tying up of loose ends at the end of the last act, choosing instead to leave his audience in suspense (although Wilde's version is admittedly in the "all's well that ends well," tradition of Victorian drama, I think it does add to the character of Mrs. Erlynne...
...seeing. It is funny, yes, but biting at its best. And the capping irony of it all: only four years after this play was first produced, Wilde himself fell into disrepute--just as his character, Mrs. Erlynne--by his failure to conduct himself by the too proper rules of Victorian propriety...