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...characters do not become repulsive--but the fault they share does. And Zweig radically alters one character, Volpone's toady Mosca, to further emphasize the central theme of money. As his name suggests, in Johnson's original he is a "fly"--engagingly ingenious and quickwitted, but as unscruplous as the rest. In the course of Zweig's play, however, he turns from his original admiration of Volpone's riches and wiles to disgust at the power of money; having inherited his master's fortune, he chooses in the closing scene of the play to share it with the people...
...hair is like something she maybe found under a bed. Add to which she is having her second ulcer and living on cottage cheese, as everybody can plainly see from the mess on the front of her bulky knit. But Gittel has a career. She is known as Gittel Mosca on the stage-of the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. Gittel has push. For years she picked up her unemployment check every week and rode the subway uptown to study interpretive dancing with José Limón. And Gittel has principles. No matter how terribly she is tempted, she never sleeps...
Beginning of an Era. Even for the vast and vocal audience that recognized the Bancroft talent two years ago in Gibson's Two for the Seesaw, this season's Bancroft is a stunning spectacle. As Gittel Mosca, the heartbroken Bronx-to-Bohemia hoyden of Seesaw, the young star still had an uncertain luster. There was a feeling that perhaps the black-stockinged beatnik was only playing herself. What would happen if she really...
Collision Course, by Alvin Mosca, an account of the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, the story of the torpedoed British liner Athenia, skillfully raise ghost ships from the depths of forgetfulness...
Like Gittel Mosca, the girl she plays in Two for the Seesaw, Actress Anne Bancroft speaks pure Bronxese with expansive gestures to match. Like Gittel, she likes bulky sweaters, long black stockings and flat shoes. With this background, she needed just one reading to win the part from Producer Fred Coe. Says Director Arthur Penn: "She didn't even read for me-I was sold on sight. She is Gittel...