Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have dipped gingerly into the classics and come up with productions-of Ibsen, and Rostand, Pirandello, Chekhov and Shakespeare. Studio One pioneered with adaptations of Turgenev's Smoke, Henry James's The Ambassadors, Sholom Ansky's The Dybbuk, and has also done a modern-dress Julius Caesar and a Grand Guignol version of Macbeth. Other shows dramatize news stories, historical anecdotes, biographies...
...News from Egypt dominated the front pages. The combination of inflation and Britain's austere election laws, which forbid, candidates to spend more than a maximum of $3,000 on their campaigns, ruled out big, U.S.-style rallies and acres of billboards. The BBC, less suspect than Caesar's wife but taking no chances, as usual allotted for the entire campaign only five hours of radio time to all parties put together, and none whatsoever in the final week. BBC comedians were forbidden to make political jokes...
...Caesar's opening TV program...
...began to see himself as a great world figure of all time, a Caesar, maybe, or an Alexander the Great. But he must bring Joseph Stalin under his influence ... At Teheran the President made various promises and commitments to Joe. Still determined but... weakened in mind and body, Roosevelt went ... to meet Stalin at Yalta. There he made still further commitments from which our country and the rest of the non-Communist world may never recover. A few weeks later he was dead-his ambition unattained...
This posed a stickler for Shaw's trusted friend, Producer Gabriel (Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra) Pascal, who had to stretch the two-acter, Androcles and the Lion, to feature length. Pascal finally wangled a grudging O.K. from the trustees of Shaw's estate to raise the alteration rate to 25%, and fattened up the script with lines borrowed from Shaw's own preface. With the biggest barrier hurdled, Androcles was only two weeks behind schedule at RKO last week...