Word: pozzo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tree's hero Harry Wesley is an English Nobel-prizewinning biologist with a yen to help humanity. His secret weapon is desoxyribonucleic acid. Injected into a plant or tree, this chemical will increase phenomenally the size and quality of the yield. An enterprising Italian government official named Pozzo feels that this is just the cure for the barren poverty of southern Italy. Above the Bay of Salerno, on some terraced soil blessed by Pozzo's cardinal uncle, Harry Wesley sets out to grow a super...
...example, at the end of Act II Vladimir learns that the mysterious Godot has a white beard, and whispers "Christ have mercy upon us." In the recent all Negro production of Godot, Pozzo, who has just left the stage, has a white beard; Hartman's Pozzo does not. Beckett's text admits both devices, and both are effective...
James Matisoff's conception of Pozzo lies somewhere between the two, and his presence on the stage gives the production more life and smoothness. As his slave Lucky, Terry Graham is at least adequate, but he should learn how to pant more convincingly...
Married. Alan Jay Lerner, 39, Broadway librettist (My Fair Lady, Brigadoon) ; and Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo, Parisian lawyer; he for the third time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
Geoffrey Holder (who plays the slave, Lucky) gave a fascinating stream-of-consciousness account of his feelings from the first rehearsal through last Friday's performance. Rex Ingram explained the religious significance of Pozzo's role and his own feeling of personal identification with the character. Earle Hyman (Didi), with his usual facile articulateness, talked about his own 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...