Word: pseudolus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albert Borowitz, as the scheming slave Pseudolus, is the perfect clown. He is stealthy one moment, moronic the next; when he comes out in the last scene balancing a bottle of Schlitz on his head and drinking from a hot-water bag, even the most non-Roman audience cannot help laughing. John Rexine, the pimp, brandishes his curses and his whip as if he had done nothing else all his life, and Paul Broneer and Joe Dallett, as the dupe and his swaggering impersonator, are well-cast. The love scene between Arthur Millward and Brooks Emmons is a spicy reminder...
...prove that the actions of the ancients could be as irregular as their verbs, the Classical Players will muster in Agassiz Theatre at 8:30 p.m. tonight to open a three-day run of "Pseudolus," rowdy comedy by T. Maccius Plautus, first produced...
...cast includes Albert I. Borowitz '51, who plays the scheming slave "Pseudolus" ("the confidence man") and Brooks Emmons, Radcliffe '50, who plays a courtesan. They were also the stars of last year's Latin play, "Miles Gloriosus...
Nero started the fire that burned Rome down--that's the story that went around--but actually you can put the blame on a sweet little courtesan named Phoenicium, to be played by Brooks Emmons, Radcliffe '50, in "Pseudolus," this year's Latin play...
...frustrated lover secures the help of a crafty slave, who eventually guides the plot to a suitable ending. The slave's name is Pseudolus, which is also the title of the play and means "the confidence man." Albert L. Borowitz '51, who took the lead last year, too, plays the part...