Word: duse
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...project her own. She was also a historic idea, a giant abstraction. To bring her alive would require no little of that art divine that made the statue of Galatea move. Julie knew that she was about to challenge "greatness" as that word was made woman in Bernhardt and Duse and Terry -to challenge it, moreover, as an actress still on the green side...
...made in Italy, is spoken mostly in English, a language some of the actors are not very familiar with. But whatever the rest of the cast may lack is more than made up by Anna Magnani. Not since she emerged in Open City, as a sort of back-alley Duse, has Magnani pelted an audience with so much juicy histrionic fruit. She raves, she twitters, she hauls off and slugs. In one astonishing scene, a whole bullfight transpires in her face far more impressively than it could have been shown in a ring...
...tragic sweetness, which wrings the hearts of her masculine audience and is the envy of more obviously beautiful but less accomplished actresses, was not bestowed on her by a fairy godmother. She worked for it. All she ever wanted to be was a great actress, in the Bernhardt and Duse tradition. She has emptied her life of everything except the theater. While other little girls learned about life by playing, she was learning her trade by working at it. She still works at it-and long past union hours. To improve her carriage, she studies ballet. To improve her speaking...
Always Interested. In Italy, Muriel had her first son, Paul Jr. In Italy, too, she fell under the spell of the gilded intellectual and artistic set of pre-1914 Europe-Art Critic Bernard Berenson. Violinist Albert Spalding, Actress Eleonora Duse, Dilettante Mabel Dodge, and John Reed, who later glorified the Russian Revolution in Ten Days That Shook the World, and now lies buried beneath the Kremlin wall...
With an Esoteric Records release, The Duse of Song (2 sides LP), out this month, younger opera lovers can hear the voice their elders have been talking about. Even though Esoteric has re-recorded its nine arias (including the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca) from 32-year-old cylinders, and Claudia Muzio's luscious voice is heard through a fog of needle scratch, her tones are full, even and velvety from top to bottom...