Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maurice Evans, Ray Bolger and Elaine Stritch will star in 16 one-hour live shows called Washington Square, alternating with the Chevy Show's Dinah Shore and Bob Hope. Nanette Fabray, who left Sid Caesar for greener folding money, will star in High Button Shoes. Producer's Showcase will offer Somerset Maugham's The Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom...
...bare arms. But his priest, Don Aniello Noto, was displeased to learn that the good boy had been expanding his charity operations. In some of his fan letters he received substantial checks, even from two Protestant groups in Switzerland and Austria. Inevitably the time came when the laws of Caesar collided with service to God. The carabinieri threatened to arrest Vittorio for collecting money without a license and to put him in jail...
...fresh eye, she has a special gift for the macabre. She raises an unlikely chill with the tale of a lady whose poodle comes to tea in a dinner jacket. She turns a trick of perspective to eerie effect by playing out the story of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar with a cast of sewer rats. Her most persistent theme: a lament over man's inhumanity to beasts. As a thoughtful cat tells a shepherd dog in a message from the realm of the dead: "Beware of death: tell them [those-who-walk-on-two-paws] that the Styx...
...Venice, Rome, and the isles of Greece. On the shores of this history-steeped sea were said, done, written and made the best part of what the West still lives by. The story of the Mediterranean is the story of Christ and Moses and Mohammed, of Homer and Socrates, Caesar and Cleopatra, of Alexander and Saladin and Richard Lion-Heart. It is also the story of Mussolini and Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...show very much belongs to Kilty; not only for his direction, but also for his portrayal of Shaw in the interpolated scene at the beginning of the play, and his worldly, bored Caesar, who suddenly comes to life when nuzzled by the lion. But it is a fortunate director who has much talent to work with. Each of the principals clearly deserves mention and praise for his individual delineations as Kilty does for the fine group work...