Word: demetrius
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Helena loves Demetrius who loves Hermia who loves Lysander. Bottom is a timid bachelor who despairs of finding an old-fashioned girl and carries a torch for his long-lost mother ("Oh, Oedipus Rex, you're so right! right! right!"). When romantic moondust falls on all the wrong parties, the enchanted wood near Athens fills up with entangling misalliances...
...staged an incongruous arrival, grunting and respirating into position on a baseball field while crowds gathered. Soon a rehearsing actor was standing in a tunic and sandals before a gaping group of Harlem youths. He tried to explain to them that in the play he is a character called Demetrius, who gets lost in the woods...
...pairs ought to be enough to define their place in the comedy Leavitt has them fooling around in a style completely inappropriate to their parts. Helena (Janet Leslie) make it clear how fine they can be as fighting bitches, but as simply creatures in love they and Lysander and Demetrius (Tom Adams and John Kemp) appear to realize all too plainly that love is terribly silly sort of sickness. By so consistently finding each other tranparently preposterous they miss the point...
...played Impresario Sol Hurok's wife in a George Jessel-produced turkey called Tonight We Sing. She played a Roman lady in Demetrius and the Gladiators, a Civil War widow, a carnival aerialist, a gangster's daughter and an interminable list of Indian girls. For one movie (The Last Frontier), with Robert (Music Man) Preston, Anne even became a blonde...
Journeying to Salonika, Queen Frederika and King Paul of Greece attended a Te Deum at St. Demetrius Cathedral, marked the 19th anniversary of the Italian invasion that forced Greece into World...