Tag: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

• RIP Maggie Smith

  28 December 1934 – 27 September 2024 I saw Maggie Smith star with her then-husband Robert Stephens in Noel Coward’s Private Lives when I was a stage-struck student studying in London in 1972, and secured both their autographs after the performance. When in 1974 at Furman University I was cast as Lady Bracknell, Algernon’s Aunt…

  georgeannmurphy

  September 27, 2024

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  Aunt Augusta, Furman University, Lady Bracknell, Maggie Smith, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, Travels with my Aunt

• Three Graduations and a Funeral, part 1, 1-5 May 2024: Class of 1974 Reunion

  4 June 2024 As I compose this account of my 3440-mile Southern Sojourn of last month, I am of course considering what happened then in light of what’s happening now.  Last evening I watched a mother snapping turtle make her way up from the woods to our lower yard, where after a couple of false…

  georgeannmurphy

  June 7, 2024

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  50th college reunion, Anne Friddle, Furman U, Gray Moon, Greenville SC, memories, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, travel, turtle laying eggs, Virginia Apartments