Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that sets and costumes merit the first and highest praise in a Shakespearean production, but the current Twelfth Night on view at stratford is certainly one instance. The dramatist laid the play in Illyris near the Adriatic coast; but the locale is of no particular import, and Will Steven Armstrong decided to make this romantic comedy a little more exotic by pushing it into a Near East such as Elizaebthans might have envisioned...
...architecture has recourse to Moorish arches of the typical multifoil horseshoe type. In keeping with the mellow glow that permeates the script, Armstrong has used light buff walls with abstract Turkish surface decoration--a gold for Duke Orsino's palace, and in pink and blue for Lady Olivia's house...
...Armstrong introduced some flexibility, however, to facilitate the play's special demands. The well panels can side back to reveal the interiors. For the several important scenes in Olivia's garden, not only is there a potted palm at the far edge of the stage, but the wall of her house wings out to become a trellis covered with oranges and greenery, punctuated by three oval holes through which is Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian can stick their heads to spy and comment on Malvolio's famous Letter Scene. All the shifts work smoothly and allow the play to flow...
Before the big home-town parade through the crowded streets of Wapakoneta, Ohio, somebody asked the local hero, Astronaut Neil Armstrong, 35, just how nervous he really was when Gemini 8 began its wild yawing and rolling last month during the Agena rendezvous. Replied Armstrong, with rueful pertinence: "It wasn't any worse than some of the scares I've had driving an automobile...
...played only once for Songwriter Mack David, who happened to catch it in the Louis Armstrong version. Hadn't he heard that song before? He sure had. Back in 1948, David had written a tune called Sunflower. It sold 300,000 copies of sheet music and 2,000,000 recordings, but it disappeared from the ionosphere like Halley's comet. It goes like this (in E-flat...