Word: dragoni
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...Bernard, both of whom have learned to accept the pedestrian nature of their lives. The director would have done well to tone down the simpish qualities of Bernard as a child--the play is clear enough on that point without the necessity of aping it. Carla Dragoni is very good as Willy's one-time lover. She is willing to take some chances in bringing the character alive, and the gamble pays...
...that infuriates me, it's sheer wanton stubbornness. I should like to cut off your head with a meat axe." Without Jan Lewis's acid-coated delivery and Hutson's wry cool on stage, Coward's play would never escape the quagmire it so richly deserves. Mark Swiney, Carla Dragoni, and Patsy Culbert portray brilliantly the assorted pathologies of organic brain damage, a chronic symptom of Coward's background characters...
...each of the three hotels which command various aspects of the Palazzo Chigi. The rooms were engaged for "an old friend, a wounded Fascist officer who wishes to view the Armistice Day celebration." And early on the morning in question a certain "Major Silvestrini" limped into the little Hotel Dragoni, demanding the room which had been reserved for him. The hotel manager, noting that the "Major's" breast was covered with decorations and that his open throated tunic revealed a Fascist black shirt, showed him without comment to a room looking out upon the balcony of the Palazzo Chigi...
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