Word: plautus
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...wits, set eight quiz kids to answering such questions as: "What did Caesar say when he crossed the Rubicon? What is a Pyrrhic victory? What is the name of the three-headed dog that guarded Hades?" After that came a Latin movie about the Second Punic War, then a Plautus play called The Twins from Syracuse, and a rendering of the Marine song that no marine would ever recognize (Ab aulis Montezumae Tripolis ad litora . . .). Finally, after singing Te Cano, Patria, the audience rose to go-but not without a burst of applause for its hostess. "We love...
Thesplans from two Houses have started to rehearse their annual Christmas plays, and the other Houses will begin in a few days. Dunster has already held first sessions for Plautus' "Comedy of Assets," and Lowell for George Farquhar's "Love and a Bottle...
Kaye's performance and a slick script get new humor out of a farce formula that was old when Plautus (254-184 B.C.) was young: the identities of the impersonator and the impersonated become snarled up until neither the Frenchman's wife (Gene Tierney) nor the American's girl friend (Corinne Calvet) are quite sure which is which. The confusion leaves wife Tierney frantically trying to figure out whether she has been faithful to her husband, sends the dialogue into neatly charted pyramids of double-entendre...
Centuries rolled back with the curtains at Agassiz Theatre last night, and onlookers were treated to a savory slice of Roman humor. The occasion was the opening of this year's Latin play, Plautus' "Mostellaria...
...keep his version lively, Translator Enrico Mafficini modeled his dialogue on the colloquial Latin of Plautus (died 184 B.C.), and from the first "Fuit quondam . . ." (Once upon a time), the adventures of Pinoculus move as swiftly as ever. He is set upon by bandits who demand his money or his life ("Emitte nummos aut morerel"), and later decide to hang him ("Suspendamus!"'). He is robbed, imprisoned ("Subito in carcarem mittite," cries the judge), encounters a "horridum serpentem," is nearly eaten alive by a fisherman who thinks he is a crawfish...