Word: othello
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priest is infatuated with the virtuous heroine, a reputable and happily married woman. He contrives to make his unholy advances through a pandar, but is on every occasion sternly repulsed. The lady's husband is jealous. One night he finds a masculine slipper, not his own, in her room. Othello-like, he rashly accuses her of infidelity. To give adequate evidence of her honor, she throws herself into the river, but is fished out and hauled aboard a passing barge. It belongs to none other than the Emperor himself, on a joy ride with the Empress. The heroine tells...
America and Americans are not noted for their success in turning graceful compliments. In 1920, the French Government officially invited James K. Hackett, U. S. actor, to appear in Macbeth and Othello at the Theatre Odéon in Paris under the auspices of the Ministry of Fine Arts. It was a gracious compliment...
John Corbin: "If one thought of Uncle Tom, one thought also of Othello...
...When I saw her in later years at rehearsals the festival productions, representing roles as Kundry, Isolde, Sieglinde or Brünilde, my mind often reverted to that moment in Venice. Her impersonation was of ancient grandeur; I have seen its like but once upon stage: the acting of Othello by Salvini, who was seventy years old at the time. But the mark of Siegfried's own character is equally well displayed in his Recollections. This short extract quoted in the book from his diary is sufficient evidence of an affirmative personality...
...some time now the East has been missing something. But it appears not to have known what it was missing until a California booster sent word, in the guise of a new wonder, that California weather and California people are still the finest in the world. It was Othello who remarked that "he that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all". Unfortunately the restless Westerner could not keep his cat in the bag and the East must recommence its yearning for the glory that is California...