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...seriously object when one of your reviewers referred in passing to that great Shakespearean tragedy, lago; when your article on "Continentalism" spoke of the noise of motor-scooters in the streets of Venice," I smiled indulgently; but when your reviewer pans For Whom the Bell Tolls in spite of the fact that he has been obviously dazzled by Gary Cooper's performance as Cary Grant, this is too much! Franklin M. Fisher...
...thirty-two straight Plays presented, sixteen were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...
When Segni took office, the four-party coalition which had dominated Italy since 1953 was falling apart. Wispy-white-maned Antonio Segni, who looks like a Shakespearean bit-player on short rations, seemed the last man in the world to repair it. To everyone's surprise, he promptly staged one of the most skillful displays of dosaggio (division of offices among rival factions) in postwar Italian history, not only revived the coalition but even managed to push through Parliament a series of overdue measures...
...begins with a child abandoned on the steps of a church in Spain. It passes through the forming of his expedition in Panama, his defeat of the Incas and his majesty as a marquis, ruler of "the empire of the sun." It moves, finally, to his death, like a Shakespearean tragic hero's on the swords of conspirators. Bloody feuds had broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster. There were twenty against Pizarro and blows rained upon...
Died. Whitford Kane, 75, genial, jowly, Irish-born Shakespearean actor, who acted Hamlet's whimsical first gravedigger in 23 productions, helped bury some 40 Ophelias; of cancer; in Manhattan...