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...honor. By removing this one characteristic of universal appeal from Cyrano, Ferrer has also taken away the element of audience self-identification, perhaps the most important aspect of the play. This is not to say that Ferrer's acting is not often superb. It is. In the balcony and convent scenes, he extracts the utmost from Rostand's brilliant lyric poetry. It is only with his interpretation of Cyrano's character that one can take exception...
...streets, shouting "Nadra!" and "Allah!", stoning and cudgeling Europeans and Eurasians, overturning automobiles, driving whites into terrified hiding. Singapore's Malay police seemed to have no heart to restrain their coreligionists. British and Gurkha troops, with bayonets and riot shields, barred the mob from a march on the Convent of the Good Shepherd, four miles outside the city, where Bertha and mama Hertogh waited for a plane to Holland. There the girl doffed her Moslem veil for European dress, tried to remember her Dutch, fondled a doll, told her mother: "It's hard having two mothers. I love...
Furniture for the Communists. A visitor to Moncay from the Chinese side is Father Herman, who was born in France but looks like a Chinese in his black silk robes and white beard cut Mandarin-fashion. A Roman Catholic missionary, he runs a school, orphanage, convent and dispensary in a little village about 2½ miles from Tonghing. The local Communist authorities recently requisitioned Father Herman's chairs, tables and beds for troops arriving from the north. When
Married. Barbara Ward, 36, convent-bred, primly pretty British author (The West at Bay), former editor of London's influential Economist; and Australian Naval Officer Robert Jackson, 39; he for the second time; in Felixstowe, England...
...musical convent" at Glyndebourne, the Sussex estate of British Millionaire John Christie, Ebert puts even the most experienced star through four or five weeks of rehearsals before they ever get on the boards. He is likely to step out in rehearsal and say in a mild, pleasant voice, "Now in my opinion, what the composer wanted to show here was . . ." and then leap through the action himself. A perfectionist, he rehearsed one scene in Ariadne 50 times. Even after the opera is onstage, Artistic Director Ebert still finds work to do. At Ariadne's opening he perched...