Word: othellos
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Waddling Exile. In between Kane and Kafka, Welles took two wives (Rita Hayworth and Incumbent Paula Mori), gained a couple of hundred pounds, and directed seven pictures. His wildly impressionistic Othello, and Macbeth in Scottish burr, were called moody masterpieces in Europe, but failed miserably in the U.S. Aside from brief bits of acting (most memorably in The Third Man and Compulsion), Welles did little more than perpetuate his public caricature. Smoking sequoia-sized cigars, he waddled like an exiled giant through Europe, looking gloomily for a future and nostalgically at the past...
...Kean play King Lear, said Coleridge, "is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning." To see Alfred Drake, in his one lamentable lapse of the evening, act Othello is to read Shakespeare by the flash of a lightning bug. Drake is more than a star; he is a galaxy. Whether he is profile-preening for an expected lady love, slashing the air with his fencing foil, or parrying insults with the Prince of Wales, he has all the darkling dash, swagger and brio of a Renaissance man. He pours his voice like nut-brown ale through a melodic sieve...
...grimy East End of London, the only child of a Jewish tailor. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School, where he admired an eccentric master with a wild passion for the theater who liked to throw inkwells out the window and strode the halls shouting lines from Othello...
...Hollywood-Olivier played Henry II against Arthur Kennedy's Becket. Olivier had always been intrigued by the part, and when Director Peter Glenville offered it to him for a short road tour, he grabbed it. Such switching is historical enough; Edwin Booth and Henry Irving once played Othello and lago back and forth for weeks...
...dining hall, Adams also an impressive, if far too brightly Othello. Daniel Seltzer, instructor English, directed and played the of Iago--much more slowly than had ever heard but very subtly. In title role, John W. Nathan '61 veyed a surprising amount of its and Judith Ogden '62 a more than adequate Desdemons...