Word: othello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Hermann Zondek, specialist in internal diseases, had left for Moscow "ostensibly to lecture but actually to treat Herr Stalin" vexed the Dictator. Pulling on his heavy peasant boots he clumped off to the State Opera, sat in a front box wearing an old khaki blouse, appeared to enjoy Othello...
Actor Otis Skinnert mild-mannered son of a clergyman, talked with a reporter about the "joyous murderer Hajj" and other badmen he has portrayed on the stage. He sighed. "The only part that I have not played and wanted to play is lago in Othello. There is a delightfully villainous person." Then he said: "I might like to play Al Capone...
...However, taken all in all he has written a lucid and illuminating appreciation of Courad Aiken whom he realizes to have gone as far as possible in the direction of spiritual disorder without plunging into madness," a poet who lives with the language of Freud and the feelings of Othello...
...taking singing lessons. His instructor: Adolfo de la Huerta, onetime Provisional President of Mexico. Said Junior Caruso: "I never believed I could reflect credit on [my father's] memory. But I feel now that I can. . . . Dad told me: 'The cemeteries are full of tenors who tried to sing Othello.' I want to sing that one best of all. . . . That would make Dad proud...
...Fascist anthems. Few pictures are released without classical titles. One announced in Rome as The Odyssey of Charlie Chaplin turned out to be the original Paramount, Tillie's Punctured Romance. Though Italians are partial to German imports, an observer for Cinema reports that when Emil Jannings in Othello was shown at the Royal Opera in Florence, at one performance the audience consisted of six people...