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...third offering of the Harvard Summer School Players' season at the Loeb Drama Center. The play, set in North Africa, features Joanne Hamlin as Lady Cicely Waynflete, celebrated British traveller, the role Shaw wrote for British actress Ellen Terry. Tom Griffin plays the tital role of Brassbound, brigand and smuggler, who is in reality the nephew of Lady Cicely's travelling companion, Sir Howard Hallam, a famous English jurist, played by Samuel Abbott...
...podium decorated with a plaster bust of himself. Like his country, Hoxha is full of surprises. Instead of being a rough, tough mountain chieftain, he is a former schoolteacher and was the pampered son of a well-to-do Moslem merchant. Though he has the mentality of a brigand, his manners are those of a cultivated bourgeois and reflect his education at universities in France and Belgium...
...entirely because his films arrive here two at a time. The latest batch: The Millionairess, Shaw's old joke rejiggered, with Sellers as the Oriental medic and Sophia Loren as the moneypot who tries to tempt him; and Two-Way Stretch, in which the comedian plays a jowly brigand whose plot to steal ?2,000,000 is goofily thickened because he is already in the nick for another...
...entirely because his films arrive here two at a time. The latest batch: The Millionairess, Shaw's old joke rejiggered, with Sellers as the Oriental medic and Sophia Loren as the moneypot who tries to tempt him; and Two-Way Stretch, in which the comedian plays a jowly brigand whose plot to steal ?2,000,000 is goofily thickened because he is already in the nick for another...
...Cantonese doughnut peddler and wound up as the gambling czar of Macao by matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing...