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Falstaff film flops rile Chicago critics at length
The Orson Welles Falstaff film draws no more than two nights in Chicago and critics fault muddled diction and inaudible lines. They praise Gielgud and Shallow’s elocution but call Welles performance self conscious. The piece also notes musico historical remarks about Buxtehude Handel and Tosca era and hints at an Ibsen revival via WittW TV presentation with Peggy Ashcroft as Rebecca West.
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Fat Knight
Cognoscenti
Orson Welles
Chicago
Welles
Falstaff
Alan Webb
John Gielgud
Bolingbroke
Tony Bridge
William Hutt
Shallow
Stratford
Ontario
Dietrich Buxtehude
Marienkirche
Lubeck
Johann Mattheson
George Friederich Handel
Buxtehude
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tschaikowsky
Mozart
Haydn
George Friderich Handel
WITTW
Henrik Ibsen
Peggy Ashcroft
Rebecca West
Knut Wiegert
Rosmer
Ibsen