Word: romans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catholic for President: "My vote would never be changed on the basis of . . . religion," but he was unwilling to speculate on a Roman Catholic candidate's chances of being elected in 1960. "I have no opinion whatsoever," said he. "Al Smith was nominated, and he was defeated. I don't know whether the thinking of the country has changed...
...black wig glossed by the footlights, the cleft-chinned, still slender actor moved across the stage with lithe vitality. In turn he flashed from eye-rolling jokester to grimacing pighead, from egotistic Roman hero to slack-jawed outcast. The actor: Sir Laurence Olivier, 52, first knight of the British theater and probably the greatest living English-language actor. The play: Coriolanus, William Shakespeare's least popular major work. The stage: Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon, where critics are only too eager to fault the stars. But on opening night last week they agreed with the capacity crowd...
...With Roman clang and massiveness, Coriolanus tells the tale of an inhumanly prideful patrician who almost singlehanded repels the invading Volscians, later is rejected by the fickle people he saved, vents his contempt by joining the enemy to turn on them. At the close, Sir Laurence dangles headfirst from a ten-foot rostrum while he is stabbed to death in a blood-drenched mob scene that is powerfully-and consciously-reminiscent of the battering of Mussolini's body...
...Firefly. Still he complains that opportunities are limited. ("I was slated for a part as one of the strippers in Gypsy, but Ethel Merman nixed me.") It is a sad thing, says Jones, that "today, female impersonation is a dying art. It goes back to 300 B.C. The Roman, Greek and Japanese theaters relied on it; Elizabethan plays were done...
Redhaired, 20-year-old Sue Simone Ingersoll (5 ft. 6 in., 123 Ibs., 37-24-36) is a hairdresser at the Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque, N. Mex. She is also a Roman Catholic-a fact that was giving sweet Sue Ingersoll something to worry about last week...