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...CLEOPATRA (Caedmon) is more than a little like Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. For the tyrannical pedant of phonetics, Henry Higgins, Shaw substitutes the philosopher-king of Rome. In place of the forlorn flower girl who must be passed off as a lady, the play offers an adolescent Egyptian minx who must be tutored in regality. The playwright's purposes are somewhat thwarted by this recording. Max Adrian is little better than a fashionably tailored verbal dandy, and an overagitated Claire Bloom is more often short of breath than breathless...
JUDITH is more sensualist than saint in Jean Giraudoux's version of the apocryphal tale of the beautiful Jewess who saved Israel by killing an Assyrian general. Rosemary Harris' Judith suggests all the contradictions and fascination of the minx who became a myth...
JUDITH is more sensualist than saint in Jean Giraudoux's version of the apocryphal tale of the beautiful Jewess who saved Israel by killing an Assyrian general. Rosemary Harris' Judith suggests all the contradictions and fascination of the minx who became a myth...
...apocryphal Judith was a pious and beautiful Jewish widow who got the Assyrian commander Holofernes drunk in his tent, cut off his head and saved the people of Israel. Giraudoux's Judith, enchantingly played by Rosemary Harris, is a rich, pampered, articulate minx who means to sacrifice her virginity as an act of personal grandeur. The total modernity of heroine and play is that Judith is as brimful of self-consciousness as she is barren of faith. In a moment of mortal peril among enemy underlings, she calls on Holofernes, not Jehovah, to save...
...total tax revenue of less than $2,000,000 a year, Jawara has vetoed the usual symbols of African pretension and power. Parliament meets in the auditorium of the old colonial country club, and Jawara lives in a modest three-bedroom frame house, drives his own small Hillman Minx, and draws a salary...