Word: othellos
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...SOVIET MOVIE SWAP will be made for first time since World War II. Hollywood plans to lease a dozen hits-Picnic, Oklahoma!, etc.-to U.S.S.R. for $50,000 to $100,000 each, get about six Russian films for showing in U.S., e.g., Swan Lake, Othello, Don Quixote...
Fausto Cleva, not the Met's liveliest conductor, this time set his singers a brisk pace, never permitted any sagging in the supple vocal line that Verdi skillfully stitched through Arrigo Boito's libretto. As Othello, Tenor Mario del Monaco sailed onstage in full joyous shout in his "Esultate," and from there on through his Act III explosion of jealous rage, never pausing to be subtle, kept the house ringing and the stage dark with passion. Baritone Leonard Warren as lago proved again his ability to soar dramatically or modulate to a mahogany pianissimo, invested his role with...
...hailstorm of bricks and paving stones. Tear-gas bombs thrown by the outnumbered and disorganized troops were picked up by schoolboys and hurled back. Three Turks died by gunfire as they drove through a roadblock near the burned-out garage; two others were slain at the foot of Othello's Tower in Famagusta. Before the mobs were dispersed, seven were dead, more than 100 injured in the worst rioting Cyprus had yet seen...
Under the Tower. On the day the debate did begin, shops were shuttered across the island in a general strike. Under the shadow of Othello's Tower in Famagusta, Gjreek Cypriots clashed with police in a two-hour battle. At Ephtakomi, someone defiantly flew a Greek flag; a British patrol attempting to tear it down was stoned by the villagers. The patrol counterattacked with fixed bayonets...
This summer's third American Shakespeare Festival is by far the best to date. Any group can justifiably take much pride in a season that gives us such great performances as Earle Hyman's Othello, Morris Carnovsky's Shylock and Alfred Drake's Benedick...