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...success of the play's low comedy is due mainly to the freshness of Roger Moldovan, Thomas Teal, and Judith Gilmartin, as Sir Toby Belch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, and Maria, the wench, respectively. Moldovan's Cyrano de Bergerac nose is unnecessary to show that he is a sot, but this does not detract from his relaxed, happily debauched portrayal. Teal's Augecheek borders on an elongated Jerry Lewis, and is very funny, dithering, and lovable. Miss Gilmartin, beguiling and spirited, ably completes their juvenile comradery...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Twelfth Night | 4/20/1956 | See Source »

Father Andrei Moldovan, a priest of the Rumanian Orthodox Church,* said goodbye to his Akron congregation one day in 1950; he was leaving, he told them, for a vacation in Hot Springs, Ark. Actually, Father Moldovan hustled off to Communist Rumania, got himself consecrated bishop of the Rumanian communion in the U.S., then returned to the U.S. to claim his title. Last week, to the satisfaction of most of his 55,000 fellow churchmen, a Cleveland federal court told Moldovan he had no right to the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Autonomous Rumanians | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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