Word: beggar
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American travelers are often shocked at the ragged beggars who gather around the cathedrals of Europe, the mosques and holy places of the Orient. The sight of a paretic Venetian pandering his nine-year-old daughter, or of a Calcutta mendicant clutching the withered body of a dead baby with one hand, a beggar's bowl in the other, is not easily forgotten. In such situations, Americans often assume the smug attitude that such things are not done at home; in the good old U.S.A., everything is organized, charity is tidily and efficiently handled...
...Beggar's Opera. John Gay's 18th century English operetta is turned, by Peter Brook and Laurence Olivier, into a classic cinemusical (TIME...
With a plot that requires virtually the entire population of Bagdad, including Omar Khayyam, Kismet casts Actor Drake as a resourceful poet who is, at different times, not only rich man, poor man, beggar man and thief, but also magician, prisoner, emir, and father of a beauteous maiden (Doretta Morrow) who wins the love of the caliph. Seldom has the path of true love run with so many detours, or so many halts to let caravans go by. Nor is the score notably helpful. Some eerie things have happened to Russian Composer Borodin's brilliantly eerie music, and though...
...subtlety is effectively matched by the clowning of Edward Thommen in the role of the prime minister. A host of other players are impressive in the lesser roles--Richard Eder as the beggar, Matilda Hills as the hypocritical queen, Leslie Cass as the scheming Nona, and many, many more...
...Beggar's Opera. John Gay's 18th century English operetta is turned, by Peter Brook and Laurence Olivier, into a classic cinemusical (TIME...