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.

Although the two parts are now normally published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the original novel.

As Part Two begins, it is assumed that the literate classes of Spain have all read the first part of the history of Don Quixote and his squire.

Part Two of Don Quixote is often regarded as the birth of modern literature, as it explores the concept of a character understanding that he is being written about.

It is not certain when Cervantes began writing Part Two of Don Quixote, but he had probably not gotten much further than Chapter LIX by late July 1614.

About September, however, a spurious Part Two, entitled Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licenciado ( doctorate ) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas, was published in Tarragona by an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega, rival of Cervantes.

Don Quixote, Part One contains a number of stories which do not directly involve the two main characters, but which are narrated by some of the picaresque figures encountered by the Don and Sancho during their travels.

In July 1604, Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha ( known as Don Quixote, Part I ) to the publisher-bookseller Francisco de Robles for an unknown sum.

" Don Quixote, Part Two, published by the same press as its predecessor, appeared late in 1615, and quickly reprinted in Brussels and Valencia ( 1616 ) and Lisbon ( 1617 ).

Seven years after the Parte Primera appeared, Don Quixote had been translated into French, German, Italian, and English, with the first French translation of ' Part II ' appearing in 1618, and the first English translation in 1620.

It is also the place where Don Corleone was held as an immigrant boy in The Godfather Part II, where he was marked with an encircled X.

Other portrayals include Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, Cotton Weinberger in The Two Jakes, and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday.

* The Godfather: Part III Don Altobello ( 1990 )

Guardians of the Lost Library was later referenced in Part 10: The Invader of Fort Duckburg ( 1994 ), of Don Rosa's The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck where in 1902 the first three Junior Woodchucks ( seen as ripe old men half a century later at the beginning of Guardians of the Lost Library ) are expelled from their former headquarter, the ruins of Fort Drakeborough recently bought by Scrooge.

* Don Quixote ( El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha ), Part I-Miguel de Cervantes

* Don Quixote, Part II-Miguel de Cervantes

* Part 6 of Don Delillo's " Underworld ( DeLillo novel )" is titled " Arrangement in Gray and Black.

Feldon said, " Part of the pop fervor for Agent 86 was because Don did such an extreme portrayal of the character that it made it easy to imitate.

Thomas Shelton's translation of the First Part of Don Quixote was published in 1612, and would thus have been available to the presumed authors of the play.

It is considered a major influence for Miguel de Cervantes ' book, Don Quixote, which was published in 1605 ( Part I ) and 1615 ( Part II ); comparisons between the two show many similarities.

In his book Don Quixote, Cervantes introduces a gypsy thief called Ginés de Passamonte who claims to be a writer ( and who later in Part II masquerades as a puppeteer while on the run ).

( In Frasier, Dina Spybey in " Don Juan in Hell, Part 2 " ( 2001 ) portrays her younger version in Frasier's imaginary dream, and Laurie Metcalf in " Caught in the Act " ( 2004 ) portrays her as an adult.

One angle where the two clubs did have something in common, however, lay in new Miami coach Don Shula.

* 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha ( Book One of Don Quixote ) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.

One of the first modern human bones of the age of 35, 000 years was found in Russia, in Kostenki on the Don River banks.

One might say that Surrealist strands may be found in movements such as Free Jazz ( Don Cherry, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor etc.

One of his first guitar teachers was Don Felder, a fellow Gainesville resident, who would later join the Eagles.

One can say he recognized the merit of Jean Cocteau ’ s proclamation: “ Ne t ’ attendes pas avec l ’ avante garde ,” (“ Don ’ t pay attention to the avante garde ”).

In the Portuguese version of El Chavo del Ocho, Don Ramón ( Seu Madruga ) suggests that they do as the TV series of Pede Mais Um ( Ask For Another One ).

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 ).

Since Barks never actually said that it was because of the coin that Scrooge was the richest duck in the world, Don Rosa, after various informations exchange with Barks, for a faithful production of Life and Times Of Scrooge McDuck, clarified that The Number One Dime is not actually an amulet, and that this vision was just a myth.

One story that is not by Don Rosa says that the Guidebook is updated by an unknown author.

** Don Number One, an upcoming Bengali 2012 film remake of the 2007 film

One of them was an old and respected Californian, Don Jose R. Berreyesa, whose son was the Alcalde of Sonoma who had been recently imprisoned by Frémont.

One statue, by Don Ray of Channing, represents a seated woman reading to a child ; this is erected in front of the library.

One slow afternoon, Don Carlos was experimenting with mixing new drinks when a prestigious visitor arrived: Margarita Henkel, the daughter of a German ambassador, who lived with her husband Roy Parodi near the city in Rancho Hamilton.

One famous personality to pass through the village en route to Lamanai was Don Francisco, the animator in the television program “ Sabado Gigante ”.

One of Agrelot's characterizations, " Don Cholito ", deserves particular mention.

One of the most successful UK branches, in Kent, was led by von Blumenthal, who had recruited Don Foreman as its secretary.

One example of this is the Prince Edward Viaduct in Toronto, Canada, that carries motor traffic on the top deck as Bloor Street, and metro as the Bloor-Danforth subway line on the lower deck, over the steep Don River valley.

He was taken on at Tubby's as an assistant, performing tasks such as winding transformer coils, and began working as a mixer in the mid-1970s, initially creating dubs of reworked Studio One riddims for Don Mais ' Roots Tradition label, given his chance when Prince Jammy cut short a mixing session for Mais because he was too tired to continue.

Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, in their book on the subject, The One to One Future, speak of managing customers rather than products, differentiating customers not just products, measuring share of customer not share of market, and developing economies of scope rather than economies of scale.