Word: cyrano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coast, the Royal Australian Navy put into Melbourne in time to make some bets. They were joined by thousands of high-talking, high-betting landlubbers who overflowed hotels, slept on park benches. There was no overpowering favorite in this year's Cup, and no apparent skulduggery-although Count Cyrano, a lukewarm choice, fell in a workout two days before the race and had to be destroyed...
Seaver will continue as director of the new dramatic series, according to present plans, Doane stated. Last night's production, an adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, the type of feature for which the studio was originally intended when construction began, he added...
...rancid. Obviously pleased with his own joke, Playwright McEnroe sometimes lets it run on too long, sometimes lets it go too far. What tremendously braces The Silver Whistle's very shaky charm is José Ferrer's very assured performance. A master of florid roles, a born Cyrano de Bergeractor, Ferrer spouts and yarnspins with an air, never trades tinseled make-believe for drab reality...
...series will start Oct. 1 with Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Walter Hampden. At the close of the program a voice will ask: "How can we make sense out of this confused and troubled world? . . The place to begin is with ourselves." The voice, referring to "Cyrano's lifelong, self-denying love for Roxane," says that Cyrano made sense out of his existence "not by crying out in bitterness over his physical ugliness . . . [but] by making something out of himself." Listeners are told that it will be easier to win the battle with themselves if they have a church...
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...