Word: brutus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demagogue are starkly symbolized by the casting of a gigantic shadow of the orator high up on the white brick wall in back. The events of the civil war following the assassination of Caesar are barely touched upon, and Caesar's ghost does not appear at all. Brutus dies almost immediately after Cassias. The play ends suddenly with its apology for its conscientious here, Brutus, and with one's impression of the murder and the tide-turning speech still vividly in mind...
...Powers does a splendidly subdued, Brutus, and the painful deliberation that characterizes the here is acted to perfection. Indicative of his disinteredness and his freedom from fanaticism, he is kept in civilian dress, whereas most of the conspirators are in uniform. This is one of the skillful touches of presentation...
...angled shafts of light marked this Caesar (Joseph Holland) well-his striding height, jutting chin, cross-belted military tunic, sleek modern breeches. Dark-shirted followers saluted him with uplifted right arms, sharp hails. Lights more benign singled out contemplative, poet-haired Brutus (Orson Welles), a reluctant, calmly-reasoning conspirator-an introspective idealist in a blue serge suit. No lean and hungry Cassius was Actor Martin Gabel, but a hunched, spleeny agitator, surrounded by grim adherents in modern mufti, slouch hats pluck'd about their ears...
...offering of the season, the play must be bracketed with Anderson's second best oblations. The Star-Wagon lacks Playwright Anderson's customary magnitude, is bathed in a questionable, tepid philosophy, bumps to a bromidic finale. Reminiscent of sundry other tinkerings with the past (Berkeley Square, Dear Brutus, Merrily We Roll Along, If, One Sunday Afternoon, et al.), it has slight claim to originality...
...Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso. Overland west to Harper's Ferry went the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore & Susquehanna ran north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column of the Washington Monument, which gleamed in white marble over the well-scrubbed, red brick city from the heights of red clay Federal Hill...