Word: octavius
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...rate, Cleopatra's life should be fun; she must relish what she does in her anti-Roman freewheeling. She positively enjoys her self-inflicted death: and we are not saddened by it, but rather rejoice with her in thus outwitting Octavius. Miss Jens, however, traverses the play with little more than sober determination...
...small roles I much admire the cool and calculating young Octavius of Philip Kerr, and the oily Decius of John Tillinger. Some of the rest need work, including Bryan Utman as the boy-servant Lucius (a role that Shakespeare had to invent instead of taking over from Plutarch, and was so beautifully done on this stage six years ago by Alan Howard). Utman is not helped at all by the ugly and fussy song composed for him by John Morris...
...Chamberlain still considers himself about ten years away "from really learning my trade." He has just finished two film parts, as Tchaikovsky in a romanticized biography and as Octavius in a remake of Julius Caesar. From his homes in London and Los Angeles (he is unmarried), Chamberlain is currently angling for stage work. If nothing else, he thinks he has at last kicked Kildare. "The umbilical cord that once bound us," he declares...
When U.S. Senator Augustus Octavius Bacon died in 1914, he left 100 acres to his home town of Macon, Ga., as a park "for the sole, perpetual and unending use of the white women, white girls, white boys and white children of Macon." Half a century later, an expanding Constitution upset Bacon's plans. Macon's white citizens realized that the city could no longer administer the park and continue discrimination. Negroes were admitted, only to have the park's trustees sue, claiming Bacon's will had been violated. The city decided to remove itself...
...years ago, Egypt's Empress Hatasu sent out a whole fleet in search of new animals to stock her private menagerie; Emperor Wen, the first of China's Chou dynasty (12th century B.C.), had a collection of animals he called "the Garden of Intelligence"; Roman Emperor Octavius Augustus had no fewer than 420 tigers, 260 lions and 600 assorted other specimens from Africa...