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These three acts show Hoffmann and his companion Nicklaus in Paris, Venice, and an island off the coast of Greece. By straining one can find significance in Hoffman's three loves: the automaton Olympia, the courtesan Giulietta, and the singer Antonia. Then, too, Hoffmann's evil genius appears in different guises in each adventure, to thwart Hoffmann's desire. But whatever symbolism there is in the story is secondary to the purely sensual pleasure of the movie...
More & more clearly, Eliot saw and recorded the crumbling of European civilization; more & more sharply, his verse photographed the human ruins-an old man waiting for death in a rented house; a tuberculous courtesan calling for lights in decaying Venice; Apeneck Sweeney at an all-night party where, in a soaring descant above the all-erasing vulgarity, "The nightingales are singing near/The Convent of the Sacred Heart...
...cast includes Albert I. Borowitz '51, who plays the scheming slave "Pseudolus" ("the confidence man") and Brooks Emmons, Radcliffe '50, who plays a courtesan. They were also the stars of last year's Latin play, "Miles Gloriosus...
...teach a courtesan how to love . . . Build where the builders all have failed, And sail the seas that no man has sailed...
Nero started the fire that burned Rome down--that's the story that went around--but actually you can put the blame on a sweet little courtesan named Phoenicium, to be played by Brooks Emmons, Radcliffe '50, in "Pseudolus," this year's Latin play...