Word: cleopatras
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...Cleopatra Julius Caeser
...Ballad of Baby Doe. A quartet of music critics, bearing bouquets of flowery superlatives, utters the rousing paean, These Tired Ears Lo at Long Last Rejoice. They praise Beverly's performance in The Tales of Hoffmann-in which she portrays all three heroines. They worship her Cleopatra in Handel's Julius Caesar, a role whose vocal acrobatics are so demanding that the opera is rarely performed...
...CLEOPATRA GOES SLEDDING, by André Hodeir, illustrated by Tomi Ungerer (Grove Press; $3.95). Two wicked crocodiles try to lure a turtle into a boiling soup pot, but the turtle, aided by a mischievous monkey, wins out, and the disappointed crocodiles have to settle for mock-turtle soup...
...Cleopatra was kept here...
...precisely the qualities lacking from too much stage comedy, and especially from comedy of ideas. An audience must be able to laugh, but it must also be able to respect itself and the object of its amusement afterwards. Among the many, many moments of laughter in this Caesar and Cleopatra, none is cheapened or distorted. And that is an accomplishment in itself...