Word: lago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benito Mussolini's eye had lost its. glitter. Eight months had leafed away since his fall from power in Rome. In his Nazi-guarded villa on the shores of North Italy's Lago di Garda, he donned his grey general's uniform, began the day's mock routine of a mock Duce...
...Joseph E. (Mission to Moscow) Davies, of Roslyn, L.I., Washington, Upper St. Regis Lake, N.Y., and Palm Beach's "Mar-a-Lago" formed a jaunty twosome (see cut, p. 43) at Palm Beach...
Most likely candidate would seem to be tall, big-framed Eugene Holman, now 47 and in charge of all production. Starting with Standard's great subsidiary Humble Oil, Holman became president of Lago Petroleum in Venezuela, Standard's other big crude producer. Holman still maintains a first name basis with many a Texas driller, is also respected in Washington where he has been serving on the Petroleum Industry War Council. Last week it looked as if the mantle of Rockefeller, Teagle and Farish would fall...
...same, Robeson's towering personality unbalanced the play by dwarfing lago. Most absolute of villains, who hates goodness, craves power, thrives on destruction, lago-as somebody has said-is the plot, since he engineers every last detail of it, unloosing all hell with a dropped handkerchief. A great lago can usually steal the show. As a pretty good lago, Jose Ferrer (Key Largo, Charley's Aunt) could not, against Robeson, even hold his own. The result was unorthodox: an Othello that had emotional grandeur, but lacked psychological excitement...
...bearing were physically impressive. He gave a plausible impression of being just such a towering man as was Othello himself. More important, Robeson conveyed the bigness of Othello's nature-its warmth, poetry (nobody in Shakespeare utters lordlier speech), simplicity, trustingness: the clawing horror which seizes Othello when lago dupes him into thinking himself a cuckold could come only from an utterly unjealous nature...