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...architecture has recourse to Moorish arches of the typical multifoil horseshoe type. In keeping with the mellow glow that permeates the script, Armstrong has used light buff walls with abstract Turkish surface decoration--a gold for Duke Orsino's palace, and in pink and blue for Lady Olivia's house...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: II | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

Armstrong introduced some flexibility, however, to facilitate the play's special demands. The well panels can side back to reveal the interiors. For the several important scenes in Olivia's garden, not only is there a potted palm at the far edge of the stage, but the wall of her house wings out to become a trellis covered with oranges and greenery, punctuated by three oval holes through which is Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian can stick their heads to spy and comment on Malvolio's famous Letter Scene. All the shifts work smoothly and allow the play to flow...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: STRATFORD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: II | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

Wednesday, September 1 ABC SCOPE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.).* "Paris Exclusive: Fashions '66, with Olivia de Havilland," marks the first advance filming by a television news team of the winter showings at Christian Dior and Jeanne Lanvin in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 3, 1965 | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...Cassidy was read mostly for her attacks. Her reviews were often florid, sometimes shockingly inaccurate-she once confused Haydn with Prokofiev-but rarely dull. After seeing Olivia de Havilland in Candida, she wrote: "A pallid, one-dimensional heroine in a kind of comic-strip Shaw. When she enters, she is an interruption, nothing more." She dismissed Conductor Rafael Kubelik: "The symphony was as shapeless as his curious beat, being distorted by arms stiff as driving pistons or limp as boiled spaghetti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics: Exit of the Executioner | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...worshiped his first wife Marie-Henrie blindly, and when she died he blundered into marriage with Olivia Slocum, a blueblooded schoolmistress whose father he had ruined. He spent the rest of his life taunting Olivia with memories of Marie-Henrie. Olivia liked dogs; Sage acquired cats (which Marie-Henrie loved and he detested). Olivia wanted Sage to decorate their house with works of art; Sage hung photographs of locomotives and maps of his railroad holdings. Olivia liked Oriental rugs and bric-a-brac; Sage littered the parlor with buffalo robes. But Olivia got even. When Sage died in 1906, leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Manipulator of Manipulators | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

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