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...only character Shakespeare did not find in Plutarch, and he was invented chiefly to illustrate Brutus' considerateness of others. Fifteen-year-old Alan Howard plays him ardently and appealingly. When he falls asleep in the midst of singing and plucking his harp, Brutus affectionately covers him with a gown. When, after the battle at Philippi, Lucius is carried in, lain on the ground and tenderly shrouded in a blanket, one is more moved than by the death of any of the play's principals...
...critics melted when they heard her warm, brilliant voice, and when it came to presentation, her stage technique all but obliterated the competition. The other voice contestants, especially the girls from Eastern Europe, exhibited little personality, stood like glaciers when they sang; Marsh, dressed in a flowing yellow chiffon gown, displayed the poise and personality of an established prima donna. In the finals, her arias from Otello, Susannah and Eugene Onegin (sung in Russian) convinced the jury that the voice inside the girl was as beautiful as the girl inside the dress...
...Tonight," she sings, "tonight won't be like any night." And the audience, basking in reverie and a second brandy, believes her. Svelte in a glittering, hip-hugging gown, her generously exposed bosom gently heaving, she moves like a vision in a halo of amber light. "You'd be so nice to come home to," she purrs, and the menfolk are hooked. Now she is happy, now she is blue, and so, alternately, is the audience. They can hardly help it. It all seems so sincere, so spontaneous, so terribly special...
...puritanical and humorless Malvolio, the square peg in the play's round hole, wears a long black gown and sports a moustache and goatee, looking for all the world as though he had just been sitting for a sober portrait by Van Dyck or Rembrandt. Feste the Clown is dressed in pink and rose, and makes use of hand-pup-sets. The earnest Viola first appears is dark gold; but when she disguises herself as the page Cesario, both she and her twin brother Sebatian (each believing the other drowned) are clothed in white-ruffed cerulean, exuding the purity...
...newest thing in attending commencement exercises is walking out on them; thus can the grim and hot-eyed war protester strike at the Government at the cost of some hapless official waiting in cap and gown for the honorary degree that the protesters conceive to be a seal of approval...