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Most of the cast of "The Road to Rome" has had Broadway experience and three were no glaring evidences of amateurism. Robert Harris as Fabius Maximus was very comical in the role of the frightened politician-turned-dictator. Huge Franklin as Hannibal and Michael Sivy as his younger brother gave assured, first-rate performances. As the character with Mr. Sherwood's best comedy lines and all of his thoughtful ones, Polly Rowles, the Roman wife, acted with such vagueness and ennui that many of her lines just seemed to curl up on the stage floor and die, lacking vitality...
...where they would have turned in the Middle Ages: to the local overlords, the Massimo family. Its present representative is curly-headed, witty young Prince Vittorio Massimo. When Hannibal wiped out the Roman armies in Apulia at the Battle of Cannae, the Romans entrusted their fortunes to one Fabius Maximus, later known as Cunctator-the Delayer, because he made Hannibal chase him around Italy for eight years. He was Vittorio's ancestor. Now that the Arsolians brought him their troubles, Vittorio realized that something just as bad as Hannibal was at Arsoli's gates...
Yesterday's race, postponed from Friday when Lowell broke an oar in a reversion to tactics first popularized by Quintus Fabius Maximus '00, was clocked at the respectable time of 4:15, sans tailwind...
George Bernard Shaw, Sidney Webb and Quintus Fabius Maximus were born so long ago that they were not able to get to the meeting. But hundreds of other Fabians crowded solemnly into Albert...
...Fabians because they slighted the arts, let bygones be bygones and conducted the overture to Die Meistersinger and the Fantasia from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet. As the music died away, the blue curtains parted. After a slight (inevitable) delay, the large balding head of Quintus Fabius Maximus' disciple Harold Laski popped through the white backdrop. Laski, peering over the big red carnation in his buttonhole, advanced to the rostrum followed by Prime Minister Attlee, Lord President of the Council Herbert Morrison, Food Minister John Strachey and Education Minister Ellen Wilkinson, all wearing red carnations...