Word: figura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ravel. George Wilhelm Pabst, exiled German Jew famed for his Kameradschaft, The Beggar's Opera and White Hell of Pitz Palu, was directing two versions, one in French, the other in English. In both versions Russian Basso Feodor Chaliapin was playing and singing the Caballero de la Triste Figura. He was getting $200,000. To look more like the lank old knight he had dieted and exercised to reduce his barrel figure. Spectators on location noted that the fastidious singer-actor Flitted daily the ribby old horse playing his steed Rosinante (TIME...