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...engaged the imaginative Herbert Berghof as director. Berghof, in keeping with the festive occasion, decided to turn the play into a "music and dance extravaganza." He employed as much music as possible, composed or arranged in neo-Elizabethan style by Andre Singer. He interpreted Malvolio's phrase, "the fool's zanies," as "the Fool's zanies," and created two new characters--a singing zany and a dancing zany--to accompany Feste the Fool. He also did some textual pruning and excised completely the taunting of Malvolio in prison, thereby deliberately upsetting the delicately balanced construction of this last and subtlest...
...them all, while posing as a friend of the Arab world, Russia has continued trying to stamp out Mohammedan culture, but Russian efforts to deceive Egypt's Nasser and other Moslem visitors to the area did not really fool them...
Epstein reacted to criticism like a maddened elephant, but never let the struggle affect his art. "The man in the street," he would say, thrusting out his low er lip like a rain spout, "is a fool. And I care not a whit for his opinions." Asked his opinion of other sculptors, the big man in the long-billed baseball cap would per mit himself a little twist . of a smile : "When I want to see a great sculptor, I have to look in the mirror." Critics and collectors often agreed with Epstein's self-appraisal, kept him comfort...
...shock soon gave way to pleased surprise. As the performance unfolded, Laughton's Lear never forgot that his was a family tragedy; even the first-act simpering made sense, for it showed a fool-father truly stupid enough to be gulled by his ugly daughters, Regan and Goneril. Then, as the king wandered mad through the storm, deserted by his daughters, the performance departed the norm again. Laughton's king was strangely calm and compelling. Rarely was he moved to the familiar, passion-torn shrieks of other Lears. His fantastic monologues with himself sounded almost conversational...
...says, "deals with a person. I have to get an image of that person and convey that image to everyone else. I have to find the highlight in the song and work up to it-to find the motive for the song and personalize it for each listener." The fool's gold from the songwriters' mines may seldom merit such meticulous attention, but the measure of Felicia's talent is the astonished pleasure of her fans. When dedicated Method Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward caught her at the Bon Soir this summer, they delivered what...