Word: countesses
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...play in the buoyant spirit of farce comedy. Jerome Kohn and Ailene Pressman, in the roles of Count Almaviva and Susanne, give animated, completely enjoyable performances. John Kerr, as the hero, Figaro, is far too subdued in the role of a shrewd, extravagant character. Roshanne Dunjhibboy creates a Countess of Almaviva who is completely believable, although lacking some comic spirit. David Bowen is a pleasure to watch as the drunken gardener, and John Gates, Michael Mabry, and Ivan Nabokoff are all alert and lively performers...
...master of the House, also the Count of Almaviva, played by Jerome H. Kohn '52, tries to cut in on his servant by making use of the venerable "droit do seigneur." But the Countess (Roshane Danjhibhey) tricks her mate into fidelity with the help of a page named Cheribino (John O. Gates...
...City as a member of the Vatican Secretariat of State. He stood well in the Vatican, was the protege of Boston's Cardinal Glennon.* Now this brilliant son of a Massachusetts streetcar conductor saw both his soul and his career endangered by his love for a beautiful Italian countess. Instead of concentrating on his papal chores, he kept thinking of himself lying on the grass beneath a flowering pear tree with Ghislana Falerni...
...visitors go out to the outskirts of Rome by bus, ring the villa's bell, and ask to see the unfinished, life-sized statue of the dead Christ and Virgin Mary on which the 89-year-old Renaissance master was working when he died. The 72-year-old Countess Ottavia Sanseverino has always let the tourists in, interrupting her meals and muddying her gleaming marble floors, even though one gaping art lover backed into one of her pieces of priceless Ming pottery and smashed it to bits...
...home of M. le Comte d'Exelmans, the fat one was courtesy itself. He apologized profusely for having to tie up the count's wrists, and before departing with the family safe's 1,500,000 francs' worth of jewelry, he turned to the countess with a deep bow. "Chere Madame," he said, "if perhaps I have here some family jewels especially dear to your heart, pray tell me and you shall keep them...