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The backyard lawn took up most of the sun, and the front yard lawn, heavily shaded by the stately elm trees lining the block, was so compacted and sun-deprived “it was basically already dead.”

The series of dance works about Louisa May Alcott’s beloved 19th century novel are staged inside the stately Victorian homes of Northeast L.A.’s Heritage Square Museum.

He found a "stately calm" about him and a "fierce discipline", which included preparing a handwritten to-do list every day.

The play, about a fanciful tour guide of a dull and stately English country house who runs into conflict with a factually fastidious official at the historic property, was almost immaterial.

He was usually the first person on the dance floor, as capable of dancing a stately waltz as he was a rousing zapateada.