Word: cleopatra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sir Godfrey Tearle, 68, veteran English Shakespearean actor who last appeared in the U.S. with Katharine Cornell in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), and whose striking resemblance to the late F.D.R. brought him the role of the wartime President in MGM's 1947 A-bomb epic, The Beginning or the End; of cardiac asthma; in, London...
...poet, speaking on "i & him & me," emphasized the ideas of "selfhood and self-transcendence." He illustrated this with readings from "Antony and Cleopatra," and Dante's "Paradiso...
...Previous screen versions of Shaw plays, all filmed in England by Producer Gabriel Pascal: Pygmalion (1938), Major Barbara (1941), Caesar and Cleopatra...
...Rome has celebrated Ferragosto for some 2,000 years. Most historians trace its origin to the three-day jeriae augustales (holidays of Augustus) proclaimed in 29 B.C. in honor of the triumphant return of Caesar Augustus from his campaign against Antony and Cleopatra. Some say it has even earlier beginnings. Six centuries later it became a universal Roman Catholic holiday, celebrating the anniversary of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven...
...some cases-as with the Oliviers' not knowing whether they're playing Shaw's Cleopatra or Shakespeare's-a bright idea collapses right at the start. In others, the comedy doesn't know how to build or where to stop. Take-offs on Truman Capote and Gian-Carlo Menotti (written by Comic Ronny Graham), though clever, have not enough magic in their madness. Even Boston Beguine, well sung by the show's topranker, Alice Ghostley, should mingle Harvard and Haiti more hilariously. The show is funniest where the spoofing is broadest: Paul Lynde...