Klarinet Archive - Posting 000172.txt from 1998/10
From: George Kidder <gkidder@-----.net> Subj: [kl] Wagner Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 08:22:56 -0400
Mea culpa! Ever know Dan to be wrong in a matter of fact?
Thanks for the correction of my lapsus linguae. (Thanks to Carole as well,
and to the many others who probably noticed it too.)
George Kidder
>
Dan Leeson wrote:
>
> >I find The Ring to be a pagan tale of sorcery and incest that
> >presents an incomprehensible mythology as a rational philosophy for
> >the world, even though it is strong enough stuff to allow the
> >modern listener to become drunk in its embrace.
>
> I am reminded of a shtick by Lillian Russell (I believe) who recounted the
> plot of the Ring, turning to the audience at one point with the comment
> "I'm not making this up, you know." It brought down the house.
No!!! Lillian Russel was the beautiful mistress of Diamond Jim Brady
and she had a 180 pound hourglass figure.
You are thinking of Anna Russell, commedienne extraordinaire. It was
she who said the line you have credited to Lillian (who lived ca. 1890).
>
> George Kidder
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