Word: cagliostros
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...Italy has the heaviest schedule: Columbia plans to make four more opera adaptations there (next: Faust), Edward Small is completing Cagliostro, 20th Century-Fox will film Prince of Foxes...
Also present were Orson Welles (currently in Rome filming Cagliostro and meeting Italian politicos in his spare time); three conservative Italian journalists who know Togliatti well; young Emmanuele Rocco, Communist Unita's brilliant political reporter...
...appearance is a roustabout George M. Cohan-looks the part he plays. He also talks it. Without using cusswords he gets an effect of violent swearing from piled-up epithets, from a trick of calling people things like "low Kanakas," "foul Corsicans." He once called Billy Rose "a penthouse Cagliostro." Suspicious, Rose inquired who Cagliostro was. Said Maney: "An 18th-Century charlatan." "Say," said Rose, "that's swell...
...humble stations, too enlightened to accept the prevailing beliefs of their class, too adroit not to squeeze through the crevices that appeared when the social structure began splitting apart. But Beaumarchais' life had one distinction which was lacking in the careers of such blackmailers as D'Eon, Cagliostro or Morande. Like them he employed forgery and imposture when it seemed convenient, dabbled in high finance, grafted, was guilty of staggering treacheries. Unlike them, he possessed a streak of integrity, was capable of writing artful and honest plays that expressed the dominant social conflicts of his time. In Paul...
...search, made by the Home-stayer on the one hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon I and III, Isadora Duncan and Woodrow Wilson...