| Name |
Views and Comments | Date |
| Mike |
If he was impotent what did she do to get it up? What was the fabled lobster claw method |
5/29/2009 |
| Marianne |
I don't think Wallace was the first woman of style or the first to use it as a weapon. Many women before her had done just that. None of them hold the title of queen of style either as the idea goes back to pre history. The most obviously stylish ladies are Madame de Pompodour, who had a hairstyle named after her, and so charmed the king of France that she acted as the queen. Cleopatra was called a woman not of great beauty but of great charm. So she must have known a bit about style. |
4/14/2009 |
| Marianne |
Well, obviously they were going to keep tabs on enemy sympathizers during a war. Duh. How is that anything special. Wallis and the Duke were an emberassment to the crown for a lon time because of their ties to Hitler, and I am sure they were always watched. At home as well as abroad. Well done, too. |
4/14/2009 |
| elvio funck |
Whatever happened to the monk and Duke of Wurttenberg?
This is a very interesting story. |
5/13/2007 |
| PST |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN "CUTIE"
While lunching with Noel Coward, the staunch monarchist, Winston Churchill is quoted to have said; "Why shouldn’t he marry his cutie?" To which Coward replied; "Because England doesn’t want a Queen Cutie!" January 19, 2003 celebrates the 107th anniversary of the birth of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, the woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated the British throne. This date also launches the American Premiere of Personal Space Theatrics’ production of "The Duchess aka Wallis Simpson" by award-winning Canadian playwright, Linda Griffiths.
Bessie Wallis Warfield, offspring of two of America’s most prominent families, grew up virtually penniless. From her 1916 marriage to the dashing aviator, Lt. Earl Winfield Spencer, an alcoholic and wife abuser, to her small quiet wedding ceremony to the Duke of Windsor (devoid of any member of the Royal family) and culminating with her death on April 24, 1986, she used her style, grace and charm to become one of the most controversial and fashionable women of the 20th Century. "The Duchess" is an epic, eclectic dream version of the true tale of Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne to marry in 1936. "You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance", she once confessed to a friend.
"This is a play about power. It shows us that while there are many different kinds of power that influence the world, in the 20th century; Style became the greatest – the most influential - power of all. So it also becomes a play about Style itself and how we respond to it. Our image-obsessed lives and politics in the early 21st century are put into perspective when we can see where they came from: the choices and desires of the first woman to use style as a weapon, as a means of getting ahead. Eva Peron, Jackie O., Princess Diana, Madonna – their influence and power, although different, were and are drawn from the groundwork laid by Wallis Simpson in the 1930’s. It also lays bare the downside of seeking and having such power: it comes at the expense of everything else, especially love," says director and Personal Space Artistic Director Stephen Wargo.
"The Duchess" caps off the inaugural season for Personal Space and boasts a cast of seven actors - Jeff Farber, Erik Gratton, Emily Mitchell, Margaret Norwood, Ken O'Brien, Edward Prostak and Aransas Thomas, who will tackle the challenge of playing thirty-seven characters between them, including such historical figures as Noel Coward, King George V, Queen Mary, Hitler and a young Lady Elizabeth (later to become the Queen Mum). You can see "The Duchess" at Theatre 54 @ Shetler 244-250 West 54th Street in New York City from June 19th to June 29th. To order tickets, logon to www.theatermania.com. Personal Space Theatrics was founded with the guiding principle that Theater was created for audiences. We envision a new environment of play-going, one where actors, audiences and plays themselves meet together in the same literal space without the conventional dual constructs of a stage. For more information, logon to www.personalspacetheatrics.org.
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6/12/2003 |
| only1jec |
Very interesting reading. |
3/31/2003 | |
