Word: emmanuele
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...young wife is enough of itself to make the production a success, but directors Ted Squier '43 and Robert Neiley '43 have built it into a triumph of the theatre. Superb acting on the part of Priscilla Freeman, in the title role, Robert Keahey '45, as her husband, and Emmanuel Weisgal '45, who achieves a perfect combination of pathos and naivete in the role of the young boy; a setting by Holarbird at his best; and strikingly colorful costumes by Edward Weren '42, all combine towards the total effect. One of the play's greatest virtues is the atmosphere that...
...well-wisher thought he was driving a smart wedge between Fascismo and King, he had another think coming fast. Both in Commons and at Whitehall Britons who know King Victor Emmanuel to be probably the most useless man in Europe made a great fuss. The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Information, which have been closing in on BBC, saw their chance. Tightened last week was Government control of all broadcasts...
...attack on the town of Sabac.) In Greece the Nazis executed 40 student demonstrators. The exiled Greek Government reported the Germans had wrenched off one rebel's arms, had buried alive three Greeks whose executioners succeeded only in wounding them. Exiled Greek Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos cried for philosophical retaliation: "Although such savage brutality . . . would be hard to find even among the most primitive tribes, retribution should not be actuated by a spirit of revenge, but by the moral necessity that an example should be set for future generations and criminal madmen be thus prevented from carrying the world back...
...Music has often carried political meanings. When the Marseillaise was banned in Austria in 1840, Robert Schumann deftly quoted from it in his Patchingsschwankaus Wien (Viennese Carnival Joke). The mere name of Verdi was a slogan for Italian nationalists, because it was an acrostic for the then uncrowned "Victor Emmanuel Red'ltalia" (King of Italy). Sibelius' Finlandia rallied Finns when Finland belonged to Russia. And nowadays the opening "Fate" theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (corresponding to the Morse code . . . ) symbolizes occupied Europe's V campaign...
Almost as questionable an acquaintance for Bertie was Britain's other ally, King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia, "a hairy man, of a virile physique, an amorous nature, and an indiscriminate affability." Bertie was much taken with him too, "chiefly because of his boast that he could decapitate an ox with one blow of his sword...