Word: cleopatras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Characters in the show include Adam & Eve, Cleopatra, George Washington. The plot is thin but the lessons are pointed-and the students earn credits by attending...
...singing and dancing I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; Dinah in blackface; a four-voice rendition of the Sextette from Lucia, with Murphy (as a matador) and Cantor (as a knight-at-arms) munching bananas; Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis impersonating Antony & Cleopatra. The story concerns George Murphy, a wolf, who has heart trouble with Nancy Kelly, a wolverine, and Constance Moore, who 1) shuns, 2) marries, 3) divorces, 4) remarries him. Common sense is left strictly (in small doses) to Comics Cantor and Davis, who get along fine with each other...
...Among Gide's 70-odd volumes of prose (mostly essays and novels), poems, plays and prefaces, are translations of poems by William Blake, Rabindranath Tagore, Walt Whitman, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra...
Nevertheless, from the age of Cleopatra's father, Ptolemy Auletes, down to that of Communist Earl Browder (who used to flute away his time in Leavenworth Prison), many men have been unable to leave the instrument alone. The flute has claimed, among others, Frederick the Great, Henry VIII, George III, George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Benvenuto Cellini, and composer Hector Berlioz. U.S. Composer Stephen Foster could not play anything else. Charles G. Dawes and George Bernard Shaw are both amateurs...
Harriet (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements; produced by Gilbert Miller) brings history and Helen Hayes (Caesar and Cleopatra, Mary of Scotland, Victoria Regina) together again. The story of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96), from her marriage at 25 till the middle of the Civil War, Harriet is anything but a militant play, is only by fits & starts a serious one. It is more concerned with crinolines than crusaders. Perhaps it had to be. For while Harriet Beecher Stowe was lifted to the heights with Uncle Tom's Cabin, during most of her life she was bogged down in family...