Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, a splendid debut. Farley's success had its Cinderella overtones as well. Reared in Moscow, Idaho, and the runner-up in the 1964 America Junior Miss Pageant, Farley, 30, has worked primarily in Europe for the past eight years. Though she already had 49 performances of Lulu to her credit, she was engaged as the cover (understudy) for Soprano Teresa Stratas. As reward, Farley had been given one of the seven performances to sing herself. A month and a half ago, Stratas withdrew from the production, complaining about lack of rehearsal time. Farley got the call...
Though prompt application of new flexible splints and pressure bandages lessens scars and skin contractures, burn victims are often left with disfiguring features that even the best plastic surgeons cannot eliminate. Says In-Service Education Director Carol Fulton of Boston Shriners: "They don't go home like Cinderella and live happily ever after." To prepare patients for re-entry into the outside world, many burn centers have added psychiatrists, psychologists and other therapists to their staffs...
...between the acts of this royal variety show are several excursions off to the home of the wicked Stepmother (Margaret Lockwood-the heroine, during rather better times, of Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes). There, Cinderella (Gemma Craven) gets snooted by her Stepsisters and gazes sorrowfully into the flames of the scullery fire, waiting for her Fairy Godmother to come along...
...course, and after several more musical interludes, the Fairy Godmother (Annette Crosbie) breezes in and waves her wand. Cinderella is off in style to the ball, where her charms make the Prince break out in a fine sweat, as if suffering the aftereffects of a curry dinner...
Director Bryan Forbes (The Wrong Box) holds such worthies as the late Edith Evans, Kenneth More and Hordern in reserve for a comic turn or two, but their ministrations are futile. Forbes recklessly appends another act to the Cinderella saga in which the commoner is forbidden to marry the Prince. She is carried by coach from the kingdom, set up in a palace where she can do what she does best - mope. The Prince knuckles under to the pressures of his station, slouches toward the altar to take another bride. Fairy Godmothers are not large on unhappy endings, however...