It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.

True, the pattern and flow of the drama have strong literary qualities that are a bit wearisome in the first half, before Don Quixote goes to the duke's court.

Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn, who danced the `` Nutcracker '' pas de deux, were also seen in the Petipa-Minkus pas de deux from `` Don Quixote '', another brilliant showpiece that displayed their technical prowess handsomely.

The texts for his course include the Bible, translations of Ovid, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Montaigne's essays, Pepys's diary, Richardson's Pamela, and Franklin's autobiography.

The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote.

(; ), fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.

The novel follows the adventures of Alonso Quijano, a hidalgo who reads so many chivalric novels, that he decides to set out to revive chivalry under the name of Don Quixote.

Published in two volumes a decade apart, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.

In one such list, Don Quixote was cited as the " best literary work ever written ".

He dons an old suit of armour, renames himself " Don Quixote de la Mancha ," and names his skinny horse " Rocinante ".

Don Quixote next " frees " a young boy who is tied to a tree and beaten by his master by making his master swear on the chivalric code to treat the boy fairly.

Don Quixote has a run-in with traders from Toledo, who " insult " the imaginary Dulcinea, one of whom severely beats Don Quixote and leaves him on the side of the road.

Don Quixote is found and returned to his home by a neighboring peasant.

While Don Quixote is unconscious in his bed, his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber secretly burn most of the books of chivalry, and seal up his library pretending that a magician has carried it off.

After a short period of feigning health, Don Quixote approaches his neighbor, Sancho Panza, and asks him to be his squire, promising him governorship of an island.

The biggest single act would doubtless be staged by Frankie himself: his Inaugural wardrobe had been designed by Hollywood Couturier Don Loper, who regularly makes up ladies' ensembles.

American Pie combines externals with internals and the resultant success of that album makes the third one ( Don McLean ) entirely introspective.

Because Scrooge officially meets Glomgold for the first time in ' The second richest Duck ' in 1956, Don Rosa makes sure Glomgold's name is never mentioned in his tale.

Don Rosa also revealed in at least two stories another thing that makes Flintheart a counterpart to Scrooge: the Number One Rand, the first coin Flintheart Glomgold ever earned ( or stole ).

In Don Rosa's Duck family tree he is included as a member of the Coot Kin and more specifically as son of Casey Coot and his wife Gretchen Grebe, which makes him a nephew of Elvira Coot, a brother of Fanny Coot, a first cousin of Quackmore Duck, a first cousin once removed of Donald Duck and an uncle of Gus Goose.

The standard text of ' Cad Goddeu ' in the Book of Taliesin makes no mention of this, but the Welsh Triads records the Battle of Goddeu as one of the " Three Futile Battles of the Island of Britain ... it was brought about by the cause of the bitch, together with the roebuck and the plover ", while Lady Charlotte Guest notes in her Mabinogion an account in the Myvyrian Archaeology that the battle " was on account of a white roebuck and a whelp ; and they came from Hell, and Amathaon ab Don brought them.

The score makes liberal use of the Max Steiner-composed theme from Adventures of Don Juan.

Michael sees that his nephew is a changed man, and makes him the new Don of the Corleone family.

* February 22 – Plácido Domingo makes his international breakthrough at the première of Ginastera's Don Rodrigo in New York City.

They also appear to have both been partisan fighters during the war ; and while Peppone makes public speeches about how " the reactionaries " ought to be shot, and Don Camillo preaches fire and brimstone against " godless Communists ", they actually grudgingly admire each other.

Thus, although he publicly opposes the Church as a Party duty, Peppone takes his gang to the church and baptizes his children there, which makes him part of Don Camillo's flock.

Gioachino Rossini's opera La Cenerentola makes this economic basis explicit: Don Magnifico wishes to make his own daughters ' dowry larger, to attract a grander match, which is impossible if he must provide a third dowry.

* January 11 – 13 – Max Anderson and Don Ida make a failed attempt to circumnavigate the world by balloon, although their craft, the Jules Verne, makes a flight of 2, 900 miles ( 4, 667 km ) from Luxor, Egypt, to New Delhi, India, in 48 hours before they give up.

Peter Travers, a film critic for Rolling Stone, pointed out that when " two Don Corleones team up ", he expected " the kind of movie that makes people say, ' I'd pay to see these guys just read from the phone book.

Some such relatives were Don Diego, a Spanish vampire duck who makes his fun and games by burning down villages, and Rory McDuckula, a Scottish vampire duck who later makes himself an enemy of Duckula.

* February 6-The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announces it will use a broadcast delay during Don Cherry's Coaches Corner on Hockey Night in Canada, after he makes anti-French and European comments, a possible violation of the Official Languages Act of Canada.

But, ominously for England, a young batsman called Don Bradman makes his Test debut for Australia.

Hoping to salvage the deal, Michael seeks the assistance of Don Tommasino, who directs him to Cardinal Lamberto ( the future Pope John Paul I ), to whom Michael makes his first confession in 30 years, breaking down in tears while admitting that he ordered Fredo's murder.

Weary of the bloody, lonely life of a Don, Michael retires and makes his nephew the new head of the family, on condition that he end the relationship with Mary.

The Custom Shop also makes a Don Felder " Hotel California " signature model.

Don makes up a song and starts to sing Butterflies are free on his guitar.

She makes a dinner date with Don, for which she appears over three hours late with another man, Ralph ( Paul Michael Glaser ).

Mrs. Baker, who had been telling Don to come back home, makes an about-face and starts telling him not to come home and to face life's challenges.

To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.

With a lefthander going for Pittsburgh, I may use Don Taussig in center ''.

In the line of operatic trades to cushion the budget, the Dallas Civic Opera will use San Francisco's new Leni Bauer-Ecsy production of `` Lucia Di Lammermoor '' this season, returning the favor next season when San Francisco uses the Dallas `` Don Giovanni '', designed by Franco Zeffirelli.

Don Chisciotte was a mix of ballet and opera buffa, and the lead female roles in L ' amore innocente were designed to contrast and highlight the different traditions of operatic writing for soprano, even borrowing stylistic flourishes from opera-seria in the use of coloratura in what was a short pastoral comedy more in keeping with a Roman Intermezzo.

On June 2, 2008, during an interview at the Danish Komiks. dk fair, Don stated that he would not do any more Disney comics, citing eye troubles, low pay, and the constant use of his stories in special hardback or album editions by international Disney licensees without any payment of royalties or requests for permission for the use of his name.

As Francis states, “‘ The Women Men Don ’ t See ’ is an outstanding example … of the subversive use of genre fiction to produce an unconventional discursive position, the feminist subject ” ( 38 ).

Big Briar acquired the rights to use the Moog Music name in 2002 after a legal battle with Don Martin who had previously bought the rights to the name Moog Music.

Its first published use is credited to Don Hoefler, a friend of Vaerst's, who used the phrase as the title of a series of articles in the weekly trade newspaper Electronic News.

In 1999, Gilliam attempted to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, budgeted at US $ 32. 1 million, among the highest-budgeted films to use only European financing ; but in the first week of shooting, the actor playing Don Quixote ( Jean Rochefort ) suffered a herniated disc, and a flood severely damaged the set.

A much safer nickname to use around him was " Don Peppino ," a diminutive of his original Italian name.

Most umpires made the switch to the inside protector, led by Don Denkinger in 1975 and Jim Evans two years later, although several did not, including Bill Haller, Lou DiMuro, George Maloney and Jerry Neudecker, who became the last Major League umpire to use the outside protector in 1985.

The fact that as early as the 1880s composers such as Richard Strauss ( in his tone poems " Don Juan " and " Death and Transfiguration ") as well as Camille Saint-Saëns ( Symphony No. 3 " Organ ") asked string players to perform certain passages " without expression " or " without nuance " strongly suggests the general use of vibrato within the orchestra as a matter of course.

Don Stephens pioneered an experimental technique to use the ground as thermal mass large enough for annualized heat storage.

Today John Barrymore is known mostly for his portrayal of Hamlet and for his roles in movies like Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde ( 1920 ), Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ), Twentieth Century ( 1934 ), and Don Juan ( 1926 ), the first ever feature length movie to use a Vitaphone sound-on-film soundtrack.

In April 1926, Warners signed a contract with AT & T for exclusive use of its film sound technology for the redubbed Vitaphone operation, leading to the production of Don Juan and its accompanying shorts over the following months.

Don Rosa's incarnation of Magica De Spell is, however, far more limited as she usually only uses magic through magical objects and in The Quest for Kalevala, Magica acknowledges that she can't use magic without a wand.

In his book about the history of film editing, Don Fairservice credits The Italians director, Reginald Barker, for his early use of editing to maintain story continuity and for his use of multidirectional camera positioning and variable framing to emphasize character development and psychological motivation rather than plot.

The Don Cossacks used the shashka, which also saw military and police use in the Russian Empire and early Soviet Union.

The appearance in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck was the only use of the character by Don Rosa.

Don Dwiggins, in his biography of Paul Mantz ( who assisted Earhart and Noonan in their flight planning ), noted that the aviators had cut off their long-wire antenna, due to the annoyance of having to crank it back into the aircraft after each use.