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...Julius Caesar is the first Shakespeare play that they make you read in high school, but that's not necessarily a reason to dislike it. There are some reasons for disliking the movie version that's coming to the Welles on Sunday. Marlon Brando, who stars as Et Tu Brute, just don't make a good Roman no way. The rest of the cast is starchy and lifeless, wringing the play dry of all its verve. The Welles Shakespeare co-feature, A Midsummer Night's Dream, is really enjoyable...
...this exquisite setting, the company's excellent veteran musical director Julius Rudel last week introduced an offbeat operatic double bill consisting of Antonio Salieri's Prima la Musica e Poi le Parole (First the Music and Then the Words) and Mozart's The Impresario. Since both works deal with backstage intrigue, and both had their premieres together in 1786 on commission from Austria's enlightened Emperor Joseph II, the two one-acters would seem made for each other...
...week he is being despised, cursed and rejected by millions of his people. The very next week he commands the praise of millions in a welcome that not even Julius Caesar could match in his visits to the banks of the Nile...
LUIGI BARZINI, Italian author: Three Italian leaders, fused into one man, could be useful today. The greatest is Julius Caesar, penniless patrician, demagogue, traitor to his class, brilliant lawyer, writer, invincible general, creator of an empire. After him, Lorenzo de' Medici, banker, merchant, poet, who ruled Florence with a firm hand. He invented the balance of power to keep the quarrelsome Italian states at peace. Then Camillo Benso di Cavour, farmer, financier, journalist, businessman, who turned tiny Sardinia into the kingdom of Italy in a matter of months...
...dynasty in the 2nd century B.C.) and Roman Emperor Augustus each gave to millions unity and peace that lasted because their policies were based on moderation which won consent. Thus they repaired the breakdown of the coercive unity briefly imposed by their unsuccessful predecessors, Shih Wang-ti and Julius Caesar...