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...Visitors to the gallery are greeted by the smiling faces of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, who seem to welcome onlookers with pride — but Ethel Waters and Clarence Brooks stare off into the distance challengingly...
...production in the UK of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, Glyndebourne can be forgiven for making a popular choice in Puccini’s La bohème for its second new production....
...In a moment of portentous symbolism, her character, Ethel, is trapped inside a television and eaten by a cartoon monster....
...Then Pace happened across a young black singer in Harlem called Ethel Waters and signed her on the spot....
...In between came the Wolfenden Report (1957), concluding that “homosexuality cannot legitimately be regarded as a disease”, leading to 1967’s decriminalisation....
...All this was done to the sound of Montserrat Caballé singing “Mon Couer S’Ouvre Á Ta Voix” from Samson and Delilah....
...And at eight or nine the twins became obsessed with G&S operettas....
...Gypsy, with Ethel Merman (1959) When the young Sondheim was invited to write the words and music for Gypsy, a musical loosely about striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, its star Ethel Merman was unimpressed...
...The comedy of George S....
...But thanks to his G&S experience he knew how to play funny and sinister at the same time – a gift he deployed to notable effect as Méphistophèles in Gounod’s Faust....
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