Word: emperor
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Pirandello's Emperor Henry IV, now at the Schubert Theater with Rex Harrison in the starring role, is perhaps not as deep as it would like to be. Neither Harrison's intense acting nor the majestic stage set can lift the dialogue from the realm of the obvious (or the too ambiguous, which sometimes comes to the same thing). The play works best when it attempts to be comic; when the hero lets loose with one of his philosophical outbursts, the audience tends to shuffle its feet. But there is little time to get bored with such a short production...
When the curtain first rises, you are plunged into a thickly tangled plot that may take you the whole first act to unravel. Basically, the main character is not really the medieval German emperor, (sigh of relief from those who hate historical plays), but a twentieth-century Italian aristocrat who suffered a fall from his horse during a mock-medieval pageant and remained convinced that he was actually Henry IV. In order to humor him, his relatives have totally recreated Henry's courts, with servants in medieval dress, oil lamps instead of electric lights, visiting abbots and monks--the works...
...been 16 centuries since the Roman Emperor Constantine outlawed crucifixions, but the practice has been preserved in some parts of the world, not as a punishment but as a macabre stunt or commemorative rite. The latest to undergo the ordeal of the cross is a French husband-and-wife team of yoga practitioners in the Dominican Republic, who offered themselves up in the cause of world peace and to demonstrate the "power of mind over matter." French-born Mystic Patricio Tamao, 33, who is the founder of his own philosophy, Tamaoism, was the first on the cross, which...
Montezuma has, as Associated Artist's press releases modestly put it, "an unusual libretto by Frederick the Great." Graun was the flutist-emperor's court composer, and his duties included writing opera seria, all of which were naturally forgotten when baroque opera went out of style. The Associated Artists have resurrected Montezuma, with the castrati parts down an octave so that men can sing them...
Thumbing through 59 TIME cover stories is another way to review the twists, shocks, hopes and frustrations of the strangest war in U.S. history. Through the 1950s, it was still a foreign conflict, and the cover subjects included Emperor Bao Dai, Ho Chi Minh (top two) and Ngo Dinh Diem. When a military coup felled Diem in 1963, Murray Gart, now chief of correspondents, watched some of the action from a Saigon rooftop. There was only one central cable office in Saigon then, and to avoid delay and censorship, Gart flew to Bangkok to file material for a cover story...