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In the News (Fri 11 Dec 09)

  
  Jill Gomez
"Powder Her Face" composed by Ades at age 24 in 1995 and billed by BBC Radio 3 as 'the opera event of the decade' is a dark, lurid and often flly comic tale, based around the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, a "heroine" with whom one has little sympathy.
Though none of the characters is especially attractive, Cole Porter celebrated her in his song "You're the Top", and a sensational divorce case in 1963 with a summing-up by the judge which focussed on her sexual peccadilloes, kept the Duchess in the public eye.
Gomez created the role of the Duchess for Almeida Opera in the world premiere of Powder Her Face, which premiered at the Cheltenham Festival in 1995 and has since been produced by Almeida at several venues in the United States, Germany and Australia.
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  Margaret
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Margaret was born in the province of Hampshire.
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 Margaret, Duchess of Argyll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, (December 1, 1912 - July 25, 1993), was a British society figure best known for her 1963 divorce case against her second husband, the 11th Duke of Argyll, which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.
Introduced into evidence in the 1963 divorce case in which the Duke of Argyll accused his wife of infidelity was a series of Polaroid photographs of her wearing her signature three-strand pearl necklace -- and only the necklace.
Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, wrote a self-serving, name-dropping, but nonetheless engaging memoir, "Forget Not," which was published by W.
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 Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
Margaret Whigham (December 1, 1912 - July 25, 1993), later Margaret Sweeny, was best known as Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, whose divorce case featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.
Briefly, Margaret Sweeny was engaged to a Texas-born banker, Joseph Thomas, of Lehmann Brothers, but he fell in love with another woman and the engagement was broken.
Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, wrote a self-serving, name-dropping, but nonetheless engaging memoir, "Forget Not," which was published by W. Allen in 1975, and she also lent her name as author to a guide to entertaining.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/margaret__duchess_of_argyll   (1112 words)

  
 A Sex Scandal of the 60's, Doubly Scandalous [Free Republic]
Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, was the central figure in a British sex scandal during her four-year divorce proceeding in the Swinging Sixties.
The duchess was found to have committed adultery with four men by the judge, Lord Wheatley, who, in a 50,000-word report that took more than three hours to read, pilloried her as a high-class harlot.
Sweeny in 1947, and in 1951 became the wife of the 11th Duke of Argyll, chief of the Clan Campbell and hereditary master of the royal household in Scotland.
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 Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princess Louise of the United Kingdom, Duchess of Argyll, (Louise Caroline Alberta), (18 March 1848 - 3 December 1939) was a member of the British Royal Family and Canadian Vice Regal Consort, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria.
Eventually a suitable candidate was chosen, the Marquess of Lorne, heir to the title of Duke of Argyll.
On 4 April 1900, the 8th Duke of Argyll died, and the Marquess of Lorne, became the 9th Duke of Argyll, and Louise, the Duchess of Argyll.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Princess_Louise,_Duchess_of_Argyll   (733 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hollywood legend, the minister and the UK sex scandal - August 10, 2000
LONDON -- The identities of two lovers of the late British heiress and socialite Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, have been revealed 37 years after compromising photographs of the trio ended her marriage and sparked a UK government investigation, according to a British TV programme.
The Duchess of Argyll slept with 88 men including two cabinet ministers and three members of the British royal family, said her husband Ian during the couple's divorce case in 1963.
Corn added that Lady Colin Campbell, step-daughter-in-law of the Duchess of Argyll, was sympathetic because the duchess was the only child of a self-made Scottish textile millionaire and a lot of her inherited money went to the Duke of Argyll.
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 Argyll, Margaret, Duchess of --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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Although she wrote on a wide range of topics, many of her books were histories or biographies of famous historical figures.
The first woman to be elected prime minister of the United Kingdom was Margaret Thatcher, who was also the first woman to hold such a post in the history of Europe.
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 The Scotsman - Top Stories - For sale - portrait of a 'lady' who frolicked with the headless man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The duchess, who died in 1993, was one of the most controversial women of her era.
Born Ethel Margaret Whigham, she was the adored only child of Helen Hannay and George Whigham, a Scottish millionaire who was chairman of the prestigious Celanese Corporation.
The young Margaret was educated privately in New York and, at the age of 14, made her debut in London.
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 Abebooks Search Results - ARGYLL BOOK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Argyll, Dalriada or Earra-ghaidheal, "the Coastland" or "Boundary of the Gael", is one of the most beautiful and historically significant parts of Scotland.
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 Articles - Margaret, Duchess of Argyll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, (December 1, 1912 - July 25, 1993), later, briefly Margaret Sweeny, was best known for her divorce case which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.
It is claimed that this analysis proved that the man in question was Fairbanks, long married to his second wife, the now-deceased Mary Lee Epling Hartford Fairbanks, but this was not made public.
On her passing in 1993 at the age of 80, Margaret Whigham-Sweeny-Campbell was buried with her first husband in Brookwood Cemetery in Woking, Surrey following a Roman Catholic Funeral Mass, which means she converted at some time in her later years.
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It concerns Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, whose sexual escapAdès in the 1930s involving most of her servants and hotel bellboys landed her in divorce court and ignominy in the 1990s.
The scene in which the Duchess totally breaks down is handled by having a number of the players in the ensemble turn fishing reels at different speeds, while microphones are quietly dragged across the tympani heads.
The opera begins with a many-times repeated two-note falling figure, accented on the first beat: part of a tango, but also a motto for the Duchess (BTW, her real-life motto was, apparently, 'go to bed early and often.'), and the musical motto is used in a number of contexts, one of which is perfectly scandalous.
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 Brand Spanking New
Thomas Adès takes the naughty Duchess of Argyll as the subject of his fine first opera.
The subject matter was also cannily chosen: the infamously lubricious Margaret Whigham, Duchess of Argyll (1912-1993), whose sensational 1963 divorce trial made headlines.
Most damaging of all, Màire O'Brien's pallid Duchess seldom came to life, although her nemeses -- Heather Buck, Trevor Smith, and Allen Schrott -- could hardly be faulted for a lack of brio.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/289   (831 words)

  
 Jill Gomez
"Powder Her Face" composed by Ades at age 24 in 1995 and billed by BBC Radio 3 as 'the opera event of the decade' is a dark, lurid and often flly comic tale, based around the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, a "heroine" with whom one has little sympathy.
Though none of the characters is especially attractive, Cole Porter celebrated her in his song "You're the Top", and a sensational divorce case in 1963 with a summing-up by the judge which focussed on her sexual peccadilloes, kept the Duchess in the public eye.
Gomez created the role of the Duchess for Almeida Opera in the world premiere of Powder Her Face, which premiered at the Cheltenham Festival in 1995 and has since been produced by Almeida at several venues in the United States, Germany and Australia.
www.sputnick.com /angela/jill_gomez.htm   (807 words)

  
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 AllRefer Encyclopedia - British And Irish History, Biographies Encyclopedia
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 8th earl of and 1st marquess of
• Beaufort, Margaret, countess of Richmond and Derby
• Schulenburg, Ehrengard Melusina von der, duchess of Kendal
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 RoyaltyDigest
The Duchess of Albany-Obituary-HRH Princess Helena Frederica Augustine, Duchess of Albany, wife of Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria's youngest son-Great Britain-7-107-76
The Duchess of Connaught-Obituary-HRH Princess Louise Margaret Alexandra Victoria Agnes of Prussia, Duchess of Connaught-Great Britain-8-107-88
Death and The Duchess-Wimbles, John-Grand Duchess Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh, daughter-in-law of Queen Victoria and daughter of Tsar Alexander II-Great Britain-10-299-118
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 Amazon.co.uk: argyll: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Duchess Who Dared: Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll by Charles Castle (Paperback - 1 Dec 1995)
Argyll and the Isles by Gilbert J. Summers and Colin Baxter (Paperback - 15 April 2003)
Argyll and Bute (Pevsner Buildings of Scotland) by Frank Arneil Walker and Fiona Sinclair (Hardcover - 1 Jan 2000)
www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=argyll&index=books-uk&page=1   (430 words)

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