Word: regina
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Whisky for a Widow. The world of 1900 was not so vast and diffuse as airborne 1950 imagines it to have been. 1900 had a focus-Britain, the banker, educator and policeman to the world. And the focus had a symbol, Victoria Regina. She stood for sureness, security, principle. After Prince Albert died in 1861 she had his evening clothes laid out every night as a memorial ritual of constancy. She had once rebuked a Minister who used the word expediency: "My lord, I have been taught to judge between what was right and what was wrong; 'expediency...
...Koussevitzky since 1942. Among them: Benjamin Britten's opera, Peter Grimes, Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Darius Milhaud's Symphony No. 2, Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, Arnold Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw, Ode, by Igor Stravinsky, Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, which last week closed a Broadway run of 56 performances...
Sixteen years later, Thayer Commons was opened. This was actually an independent, voluntary, non-profit dining association, supervised by Regina Bonarum, "Queen of the Goodies." The demand for Thayer was so large that in 1874, at the suggestion of President Eliot, the dining association moved to Memorial Hall, which had been originally planned for nothing but the Commencement dinner...
...whole production-including Horace Armistead's sets and Robert Lewis' staging-has been done with style. Though an effective Regina in her first serious Broadway role, Jane Pickens, with perhaps the least vocal right, leaves the most determinedly operatic impression. More memorable are Brenda Lewis' overall performance as the pathetic Birdie and Newcomer Russell Nype's comic charm as the loathsome...
...Producer. In her 18 years as one of the two regulars among Broadway's few women producers,* Regina's Cheryl Crawford has managed to combine hardheaded business instinct and high-minded theatrical taste. The results were more praiseworthy than profitable until she found a knack for offbeat musicals: 1942's revival of Porgy and Bess, 1943's One Touch of Venus, 1947's Brigadoon-her biggest hit, after some of the town's canniest producers had turned it down...