Word: othellos
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...cultural reactions (including music and art), and later said, "I wouldn't have been able to learn my lines in this play unless every one of them meant something definite to me. . . .Nevertheless, I still consider myself a Shakespeare man" (a highly acclaimed Hamlet, he will be the Othello at next summer's American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Connecticut). Mantan Moreland (Gogo), to get a laugh, pulled the Bert Lahr trick of quipping, "I speak my lines, but I don't know what I'm saying." But just as Lahr in private has clear ideas about the play's meaning...
...found itself unable to recover until the rival organization closed down in 1953 and turned its resources over to the HDC. Neil Smith, a former member of the Theater Group, became the president of the HDC, and gave the Club, which the previous year had produced only one play--Othello--a new vitality. In 1953-54 it produced four major shows, of which the biggest was T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral...
Having made no headway with the angelic Miss Blair (she allowed him to press his hand upon her waist during a performance of Othello, but that was all), he consoled himself with a young Irish lady just 16-"formed like a Grecian nymph . . . her father with an estate of ?1,000 a year and above ?10,000 in ready money. Upon my honour, I never was so much in love." When Bozzy set off to Ireland to make a formal bid for the nymph, he took with him his favorite cousin, Margaret Montgomerie. Sweet Peggy acted as his counselor...
...very favorable community reaction to last summer's Brattle productions of Othello, Henry IV, Part 1, and Much Ado About Nothing...
...Soviet Union's plumpish (37-25-38) Cinemactress Irina (Othello) Skobtseva disclosed that feminine curves do not jibe with the serpentine Soviet party line. Said Irina: "We've never heard of sex appeal in Russia. It doesn't count and has nothing to do with art." Distending her ample bosom, she added: "In the Soviet Union, we do not pose in bathing costumes...