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...The Westin Paris Vendôme hotel, which has hosted Napoleon III’s wife, Russian dukes and the Dalai Lama since it was built in 1878, is being discreetly marketed by owners Henderson Park, according to two...
...He’s done Hamlet, Othello. But the staging in this one is really contemporary....
...Hawkes was also a favourite with the royal family from the days of George III. In 1912 it became responsible for the supply and upkeep of the uniforms worn by the royal bodyguard....
...Social Capital Hedosophia II and III will merge, respectively, with Opendoor Labs, a tech company, and Clover Health, which uses data analysis to reduce healthcare costs, in two of the year’s biggest deals...
...During the Californian gold rush, there are stories of miners thronging improvised theatres to see Richard III and King Lear, and touring companies at every corner of the frontier....
...Rylance has previously played Richard III as a smiling, wisecracking psychopath and in some senses his Iago is a distant relative. He’s akin too to Brecht’s Arturo Ui....
...It wasn’t just Hamlet and Hal: he’d taken nearly every leading role in the canon, from Lear and Othello to Macbeth and Richard III, plus parts by most other Elizabethan dramatists....
...Giles Terera took best actor for his portrayal of Mr Hamilton’s nemesis Aaron Burr, and Michael Jibson, who played a deadpan King George III, won best actor in a supporting role....
...(TMT’s 2017 autumn season included a Japanese production of Richard III by Romanian director Silviu Purcărete, and Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s Othello, directed by Ivo van Hove.)...
...Here are the 17 correct ones in Jan Dalley’s column above, all from the plays: “Undiscovered country” – Hamlet, Act III, Sc 1 “Shuffled off this mortal coil” – Hamlet, Act III, Sc 1 “Happy breed” – Richard...
...Jamie Smyth is the FT’s Australia and Pacific Islands correspondent Photographs: Shara Henderson; Getty; AAP...
...royalexchange.co.uk, April 1-May 7 Kings of War Barbican, LondonWhere the RSC cycle brings the story up to Henry V, this staging starts with that troubled monarch and moves forward through Henry VI and Richard III...
...The action unfolds in a soulless pub, where Othello is a bouncer, accorded a rough respect from the other lads — until he marries a white girl....
...The bank would probably need to make heavy cuts to its investment bank division to comply with Basel III net stable funding ratio rules, something that runs contrary to its investment banking heritage....
...Other characters may do terrible things – Edmund in King Lear lies, cheats and schemes, Richard III kills countless people and boasts about it, Macbeth, too, slaughters his way to power – but there is rhyme...
...Joe Sarbinowski, global head of institutional cash sales and client management at DB Advisors, says regulatory initiatives such as Fatca, Volcker, Basel III and US-based rules for money market funds may...
...These included a brother of George III, a director of the Bank of England, the Scottish painter-antiquary Allan Ramsay, and a Catholic priest remitting a secret hoard of holy relics for use in the chapel...
...Within 10 seconds, three impressions are conveyed in rapid succession: (i) it has, quite definitively, started; (ii) the cast are in period costume, codpieces and all; and (iii) Dominic West is adopting...
...● In contrast Henderson Global Investors has thrown its weight behind the traditional offshore hedge fund industry with the launch of the Cayman-domiciled Henderson Agricultural Fund....
...● Bob Arends will manage the Henderson Horizon Global Currency Fund, a Ucits III structure. ● Threadneedle has launched an Enhanced Commodities Fund in Ucits III structure....
...● Henderson New Star is set to unveil a European Special Situations fund next month. Managed by Richard Pease, the fund will focus on the small and mid-cap market....
...Breaking pre-market news on Thursday, - Sir Richard Broadbent to become deputy chairman of Barclays, Reuben Jeffery III to become non-exec director — statement....
...In Richard III – in the film he produced and “wrote”, in the sense of editing Shakespeare’s text, himself (More4, Boxing Day) – McKellen was a modern beast....
...And just to show the sport’s unpredictability, Nicky Henderson, whose horses have been collecting the majority of big prizes this season, saw his favourite in that race, Punjabi, fall at the second last,...
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