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...onstage with two principals, it becomes quite important. Some extras will take it very seriously. I was more of the school which did not consider it a great art and took it much more casually. But when I was soldier number 14 in the first act of [Saint-Saens'] Samson and Delilah, that did take some acting...
...Soldier number 14 is a particularly good role because soldiers number 1 through 12 are killed in the first ten minutes of the opera. Soldier number 14, the privileged one, is the messenger's assistant. The messenger comes to tell the high priest that Samson has killed soldiers number 1 through 12; that's a very good part because I move alone on stage, clearly, conspicuously, to my own individual, personal set of cues. During the high priest's area of vengeance against the Jews, I had to show tremendous hatred toward the Jews, and that took...
...happy scene might be during the last act of [Wagner's] Meistersinger, laughing at Beckmesser, who is a comic character. Or, another one from Samson and Delilah, the Bacchanale scene which ends in Samson's knocking down the pillars, is a drunken orgy. You're supposed to be doing whatever you want, so you wander around and slap people on the shoulders in no apparent order onstage. I was talking to people and revelling and having a good time...
...police with shotguns cleared the streets. "We moved as soon as we could," insisted Police Chief William Swing in response to mounting criticism. "Until we saw weapons, no laws had been violated." All of the dead were anti-Klan demonstrators: Sandra Smith of Piedmont, S.C., and Caesar Cauce, William Samson and Jim Waller, residents of Greensboro. Wounded were two Klansmen and eight demonstrators, including Bermanzohn. Police arrested 14 people, including two marchers and twelve Klansmen. The Klan members were charged with murder. One demonstrator was charged with inciting to riot, the other with interfering with an officer...
...doesn't Austin bid for a Government subsidy to give Samson away, much as milk is handed out in school lunch programs? Anybody knows that if Coke tried for that, the milk lobby would raise hell. The company also has to be careful about trumpeting the product as a good-for-you drink because consumers-particularly the poor-might be suspicious...