Saturday afternoon at the chat
As a warmup for the impending Saturday afternoon Met broadcast chats, La Cieca thought the cher public would like to convene tomorrow in the PM to flex their chatting muscles. Which opera to be broadcast on the internet tomorrow should we hear and discuss?
Bonus quiz: identify the commenters depicted in the photograph above, left to right.
Norma Shearer, Joan Fontaine, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard and Mary Boland
oops, I misunderstood the question…
Obviously, second from left is Squirrel. The others?
I would say that our doyenne is Paulette Goddard, the fourth one.
I’ll be at the Met seeing TRITTICO, so I have no bull in this rodeo.
lucky you! it’s a good time.
from left: La Cieca, Squirrel, Lindoro, any of the rest of us, Harry
Hey, why did you have to cast me as the one pulling someone’s hair out? Is that how you see me?
Like Rosalind Russell, I think you are a quick-witted, fast-talking sophisticate who sometimes pulls hair to make a point. My own roots have been in the sling after an encounter.
LOL! I don’t know whether to be insulted or so incredibly flattered I should jump.
OK, you just called me witty (which I don’t think I am), sophisticated (which my mother would love you for) and then the cherry on top is the fact that you mentioned Auntie Mame (which I would love to be for my niece), so I am going to go and giggle and clap like a teenager who has just been picked for the cheer leading squad.
On the other part, you are right, I am willing to pull someone’s wig to make a point, even if after the fact I am the one who hands them the wig back with a smile.
I’m not going to say who I think it is in the hat…
If you feel the room slowly tipping to the right, it’s because there’s a large gaggle of Countess de Laves on board who have taken the veil and married their muse… “L’amour, l’amour, toujour l’amour”. CruzSF would be Joan Fontaine as Peggy day, naive and sweet.. Our doyenne, with her protean range, on any given day can have the pefect manners and spurned nobility of Mary Haines, is of course THE Countess de Lave of Countess de Laves, and, like Sylvia, is always current with the latest “Jungle Red” gossip. I haven’t seen her for a while and I could be wrong, but I believe Paulette Goddard is Paddypig (or Cheryl Studer?) being banished from paradise. Squirrel (unseen) is somewhere on the ground gathering nuts and looking up skirts.