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Gulbenkian. In London last week, Nubar recalled his own pride in closing in two minutes a deal that netted him ?100,000 ($280,000 at current exchange rates). But Papa Calouste was not impressed: "He said I should have made...
...minor parts, on the other hand, are very nicely played. Steve Aaron hams his way through the role of Papa Scapulet with such obvious pleasure at being on a stage, milking every line and pausing before every exit as though he couldn't bear to leave, that one can't help but enjoy his performance. Spyro Harbouris plays Friar Lawrence as a deadpan Italian cobbler, and for one delightful moment Philip Stone totters on stage and then stumbles off as Friar John. Beatrice Paipert is not nearly disgusting enough as the nurse, but at least she laughs and weeps with...
Come Blow Your Horn. Some fresh and funny lines come out of the battle between a proud papa from the school of hard knocks and two sons who just want to play hooky...
...Italy, by Herbert Kubly. This book is written con amore. No visible distance separates Author Kubly (American in Italy) from the Italian spirit. Kubly captures the native moods, sensuous, skeptical, volcanic, and the native pieties-toward nature, the family, and Il Papa. Italy is poor, except that it has been left Michelangelo, Raphael and Dante. The Italian's lot is sad, yet he sings in his chains. Italy is a relic of history, says Kubly, yet no people lives more fully and joyfully in the present moment. Most striking photograph: Venice's cemetery isle of San Michele, with...
...governor is raped by the resident bootlegger (Yves Montand) and dragged off to a sporting house in New Orleans, where he keeps her for his private pleasure-which also turns out to be hers. After some weeks he is reported killed and the girl goes sadly home to Papa, who soothes what he assumes to be her injured innocence and marries her off to the reformed drunk...