Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This "musical play" plants Cervantes in the dungeons of the Inquisition and pivots on the device of having him defend himself and his book in a mock trial by acting out the role of the knight of the woeful countenance. The indictment is modishly mock-cynical a la 1965; not the worst of the evening's sentimentalities is: "I charge you with being an idealist, a bad poet and an honest man. How plead you?" With this cue, the good grey don (Richard Kiley) whirls into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where...
Immature Crops. All was far from quiet in London, where Sir Humphrey had overnight become the toast of the crown. The House of Commons passed an unprecedented motion of "admiration" for his stand, and Queen Elizabeth made him Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. Even so, it was becoming increasingly plain to Prime Minister Harold Wilson that the sanctions he had imposed on Rhodesia were a long way from bringing Smith to his knees...
...Lord is a costume epic with an unusual theme. Its hero, quite as usual, is Charlton Heston, playing a misspent 11th-century knight who falls heir to a small and dreary Norman fief on the coast of the North Sea. "There's a strangeness in this place," Heston remarks. And his servant Richard Boone nods sagely, like a man who knows a godforsaken frontier town when he sees one. Heston's castle is a tacky stronghold, one lone tower surrounded by sullen villagers and under constant threat of attack by swarms of large blond barbarians wearing identical wigs...
This year's show had a medieval setting, hardly original but workable enough. One Knight's Stand concerned a schlemiel of a knight named Weritas (hmmph!), who was seeking the hand of fair Tupel' Aura. Her sisters advise against the union because of Weritas' ineptitude, and a group of witches object for totally obscure reasons. The plot was flimsy, but generally unobtrusive. In the second act however, the girls tried to interject a peace "message" concerning senseless bloodshed on the jousting field. They would have had to underplay it far more than they did for it not to seem...
...also closing in on the front-running Chicago Tribune. A serious and responsible tabloid, the Sun-Times was even outselling the Trib within the city limits of Chicago. Field's second paper, the Chicago Daily News, which he bought for $24 million from the Knight Newspapers in 1959, was not making as much money as the Sun-Times, but it was gaining in reputation. "I think newspapers should speak to the orchestra seats as well as to the peanut gallery," Publisher Field once said, and from both places, Chicago seemed to be listening...