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...nominated charity. Beginning last year as an initiative at Houston's Hotel Derek, the Giving Room idea has now spread to hotels like the Landmark Bangkok (in aid of the Thai Red Cross), the Hotel Majestic in Barcelona (for Oxfam), and Ireland's Dromoland Castle (in support of the Barnardo's children's charity). For the full list, go to phggiftts.com...
Branagh sets the play in a pre-World-War-I era, apparently for no reason other than novelty. As all Hamlet-o-philes know, the story begins with the sighting of King Hamlet's ghost by Horatio (Nicholas Ferrell), Marcellus (Jack Lemmon '47) and Barnardo (Ian McElhinney). Here Bismarck-style hats poised atop the head of an improbably cast Marcellus steal a scene intended to prepare the audience for the play's mood of ranting and revenge. But to the audience's consternation, the period so over-emphasized early on plays a minor or non-existent role later...
...understudy long enough to buy a new shirt and, largely on the strength of it, got a job as director of the Tunbridge Wells Repertory Theater, which several years later went broke. So did Fry. Next he was commissioned to write a play fof a charitable organization, Dr. Barnardo's Homes, which runs orphanages all over England. The play was called Open Door and dramatized the life of the founder, John Barnardo; Fry toured England with it for two years...
Intended in part as a tribute to London's late great Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, who started his famed trade schools for orphans in 1867, Lord Jeff picks up the history of young Geoffrey Braemer (Bartholomew) at the moment when he is caught acting as a blind for two daring jewel thieves who have made themselves his guardians. Russell-Cotes School, to which Geoffrey is remanded in lieu of the reformatory, is a naval training institution which seems to be a model of its kind, with good-hearted Herbert Mundin to teach the boys sailors' knots and coach...
...always well-known presence; but he had many a row to hoe before he became head gardener. Son of an almost violently religious naturalist, he was teethed on doctrine but never got nearer the kingdom of heaven on earth than working a brief, unhappy while in one of Dr. Barnardo's London orphanages. A timid and touchy man, Gosse was not cut out to be a good mixer with the masses. He got a job in the cataloguing section of the British Museum, became successively London agent for U. S. Publisher Scribner, lecturer at Cambridge, Librarian of the House...