Word: othellos
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...Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites was Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight! Long before Minnie Maddern Fiske transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell, Joseph Boggs Beale...
...French intermediaries, and Shakespere, likewise, as the whole history of criticism shows, is too great ever to be altogether ignored anywhere for long; he came into his own in Russia at the beginning of the XIXth century, when the Russian General, Ivan Alexandrovitch Velyaminov made a prose translation of "Othello" from the French version of Ducia...
...scheme to make annual revivals there a reminder of the city's rowdy past. The revivals started two years ago when Lillian Gish played Camille. Last summer an audience in 1890 costume watched The Merry Widow. For last week's performance Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones selected Othello, persuaded Walter Huston to take a six-week vacation from Dodsworth in Manhattan to appear as the Moor with Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston) as Desdemona...
...Central City's Opera House and its 750 hickory seats were redolent of the past, there was nothing antique last week about what happened on the stage. Walter Huston made Othello a modern hero, lively, admirable and forlorn. Nan Sunderland's Desdemona was a graceful and impulsive lady, much more exciting than the demure Desdemonas who were in vogue when Central City last saw Othello. Kenneth MacKenna, whose brother. Scene Designer Jo Mielziner, was in the audience, made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled...
...Fetchit was a successful Hollywood comedian (Show Boat, Hearts in Dixie, Fox Follies). He made $1,000 a week, owned four Cadillac cars with a chauffeur for each, spent $75 telephoning his mother to ask whether to buy his sister a $36 dress, urged producers to cast him as Othello. Annoyed by rumors that he was as lazy off the screen as on, he grew over-diligent, insisted on writing his own lines, directing his own scenes. In 1931, Stepin Fetchit ceased to be employed in Hollywood. Last autumn Winfield Sheehan of Fox was smart enough to rehire...