Word: uta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. José Ferrer, 36, actor-producer (Othello, Cyrano de Bergerac); and Phyllis Hill, 27, blonde Broadway actress (Angel Street, Cyrano de Bergerac); four days after his Mexican divorce from blonde Broadway Actress Uta Hagen (Angel Street, Othello) ; she for the first time, he for the second; in Greenwich, Conn...
From Yokohama to Nagasaki, Japanese last week hummed, whistled and sang Ringo No Uta (The Song of the Apple). It was Japan's first big sentimental song hit since 1941, when Japanese music went martial. Tokyo's radio station JOAK got 100 requests a day for it. It had sold 200,000 phonograph records and 50,000 copies of sheet music, and would have sold more if its publishers had had the materials. Even G.I.s hummed it. Apple's lyrics, translated...
Lesser parts are competently, though not brilliantly performed. James Monks, of "The Eve of Saint Mark," does the best job of the minor players as Cassio, another victim of Iago's treachery. Uta Hagen is a very frail and very dainty, but also a very spiritless Desdemona. Margaret Webster, who directed the present revival, plays Emilia, Iago's wife, completely straight. She adds not one touch of her own which would let the audience know whether she is working for or against her villainous mate...
...Uta Hagen's Desdemona is the third highlight of the play. Her acting as an innocent ingenue bears out the angelic descriptions of her earlier in the play. And when she sings the song her mother taught her before the death scene, the slight, hoarse voice carries a sheer emotionalism that cries out against the injustice of her fate...
Robeson, who states that his production of this play is still far from prefect, and who is experimenting to work out new ideas all the time, was entertained as guest of honor, with Margaret, Webster, Jose Ferrer, Uta Hagen, and other members of the cast of "Othello" at a cocktail party given jointly by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Signet Society...