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Ougly Hell. As master of the court revels from 1605 onwards, Jones revolutionized English stage techniques, importing the Italian proscenium arch and exiling the simple "wooden O" of Shakespeare's stage for three centuries. From Florence, he adapted stage sets that consisted of serried ranks of flats painted in perspective, with a distant vista on the backdrop, "the whole worke shooting downewards," as Jonson said, "which caught the eye afarre off with a wandring beauty...
...more than physically confusing. It is enormous, so much so that any attempt to build intimacy among characters becomes impossible. Lithgow and director George Hamlin have left the Loeb's three-piece proscenium arch fully opened and have used a good deal of the available depth as well. The result is that actors who might look too small for their roles even on a normal stage are drowned in space...
...back to the theater," he says, "but not yet. I've had art up to my eyebrows and I never made a penny. Never even got a bloody television award." For compensation there is $500,000 per picture-plus a small town house near Marble Arch that may soon give way to a large town house...
Naylor, like Henjyoji, tries to refrain from his favorite maneuver because when it fails it's fatal. If on falling back he fails to arch the man with his leg or if he doesn't have his arms firmly hooked into the man, then he will probably end on his own back. Naylor's teammates mention the possibility to him from time to time...
Degrees in Arch Sci and Vis. Stud. would be awarded by a committee made up of faculty members from both disciplines. This procedure would be similar to the one currently' used in History and Literature...