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Died. Mary Stollard-Purnell, 91, widow of "King" Benjamin Purnell, founder of the bewhiskered, ball-playing House of David, whose followers claimed to be descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel;† near Shiloh, the religious cult's realm, in Benton Harbor, Mich. After "King" Benjamin died in 1927, while appealing his famed conviction on morals charges, the House of David became a house divided. "Queen" Mary got half of its several-hundred-thousand-dollar property, gathered 200 loyal followers and established a new colony, where she awaited the millennium by supervising the colony's dairy farms...
...syndicated over-the-back-fence news report for 40-odd papers on what she is doing down in Washington. Besides discussing her serious business, such as investigating ammunition shortages, she lets the folks in on odd bits of personal gossip, e.g., how capital busybodies have tried to match-make Widow Smith with Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, one of the capital's more eligible bachelors...
...Moviegoers who have seen her only as Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba have difficulty imagining her as anything but an aging frump in a kimono. But lucky theatergoers have been persuaded, at one time or another, that she was an intense, good-looking young schoolteacher, a tippling grass widow, and a well-girdled, wisecracking career girl...
...marquis' $25 investment turned into one of the most profitable in the history of art. His Rembrandt brought $100,000 from a wealthy Glasgow merchant, whose widow later presented the painting to Britain's Fairbridge Society, which sends underprivileged children to its farms in Australia...
...them, hug them, and waltz them right into the present. The transformation is aided by brilliant modern costumes, both Voguish and roguish, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch; Shakespeare in tails seems no more anachronistic than Shaw in a toga, and at times quite as cynical. The play's "Florentine Widow" becomes a wonderful old madam catering to the occupation forces; Helena's choosing a husband is turned into a charming kind of debutante cotillion; and the scene in which the braggart Parolles (superbly played by Douglas Campbell) is exposed as a miserable coward becomes a genuinely funny affair, full...