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...that could be Mammoth Cave swallowing the Parthenon of Nashville, the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn, last week opened a production of Troilus and Cressida. But what ho? There, on a camp stool, sat mighty Agamemnon, stroking his beard, smoking a ten-inch cigar, wearing the uniform of a Union general and looking for all the world like an actor dressed up to play Ulysses S. Grant. There too was doddering old Nestor, also wearing the blue, with binoculars around his neck. Menelaus wore pince-nez, and they all used the spittoon and the likker jug. The Trojan...
...Banyuls farm, he worked away at his nudes until the day he was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 82. His majestic beard turned white; his wiry body became stooped. Younger, placid and broad-hipped models came to pose and serve as inspiration. "I am inconsolable," he once said, "not to have seen the figures of all the women of my native province." It was his last favorite model, plump Dina Vierny, who tracked down every work the master did and was largely responsible for assembling the current show. Now in her 40s, she still refers...
...ever heard of a fairy-tale hero's heading for the altar in overalls?). His brother Oliver wears riding habit, carries cigars, and flourishes a cigarette lighter. The usurping Duke Frederick is decked out entirely in white, except for a diplomat's baldric-like red sash, and, with his beard, is a double for Peter Ustinov. For him Baker has invented (taking a cue from Violenta in All's Well?) a silent female companion who slinks about in a black gown and ling cigarette-holder, a refugee from a Charles Addams cartoon. The Duke's wrestler sports a checkered jacket...
...father raises Herefords near tiny Orange, Va. Bresee is an ex-G.I. who got his forestry degree from the University of the South in 1956, then "just took off" to thumb and hike his way through much of Africa, Asia and Europe for four years. He used a beard, a bit of French and a cast-iron stomach to impress African tribesmen, figures he already knows the secret of getting along in Tanganyika (which he visited): "They accept you if you sit down and eat with them." Fond of Africans and their wildlife, he would like to make...
Down with RIAS. It had all been said before, but in East Berlin the little spade beard of East German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht fairly bobbed with joy at Khrushchev's words. Glittering, prosperous, capitalist-run West Berlin stands in humiliating contrast to Ulbricht's own drab, run-down capital just across the sector border; moreover, West Berlin's refugee centers provide the escape route for most of the 200,000 skilled workers, engineers, farmers and white-collar professionals who flee Ulbricht's miserable country for the West each year, sapping East Germany's very...