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...epigrams of Wilde. Yet he took a romantic's delight in character. London Assurance is peopled with enough eccentrics to fill the portmanteau of a Victorian novel. Welding this strength to the polished ensemble skills of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Adapter-Director Ronald Eyre has transformed an old chestnut into a parody of what is already a near parody of Restoration comedy...
...Died. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, 87, "Queen Mother of American Tennis"; in Chestnut Hill, Mass. In over four decades of play, Wightman won 45 titles and a spot in the Tennis Hall of Fame. In 1919 she donated the premier prize in international women's tennis, the Wightman...
...society. Like any company devoted to performing a canon of works over and over, some years it must forego the juiciest operas and stick with the second-rate. But The Mikado (even if it's not quite as good as Patience) is the traditional favorite, the old chestnut by which the rest are judged. Its production is like Hamlet at Stratford or Casablanca at the Brattle Square. This Mikado, though, is hardly a high point among recent G & S productions at Harvard--it's not painfully disappointing, but it lacks exuberance and never extracts the full humor of Gilbert...
Born. To Secretariat, horse racing's 1973 Triple Crown winner, whose potential as a superstud was sold to a syndicate for more than $6 million, and Leola, a 13-year-old Appaloosa mare: a male red chestnut colt, the stallion's first offspring; on a farm near Winona, Minn...
...tense goal-to-goal situations, Plunkett is poised and powerful. Sitting in his modest Chestnut Hill apartment, he's ill-at-ease and soft-spoken. He'll crack a smile about as often as he'll fumble a football--hardly ever...