Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heartily approves of the tendency of some recent shows, such as last season's "Our Town" and "Julius Caesar," to do away with elaborate and "realistic" scenery, declaring that the stage's limits are the audience's imagination...
Hamlet (by William Shakespeare; produced by Maurice Evans). Biggest Shakespeare news in the theatre last season was a Julius Caesar cut to half its ordinary size. Biggest Shakespeare news this season may well be a Hamlet swollen to twice its usual bulk. Last week Actor-Manager Maurice Evans (Richard II) rang up the curtain at 6:30 p.m. on "the first uncut Hamlet in New York" before a half-fashionable, half-earnest first-night audience who sat back grimly in their seats and waited to see if they could take it. When, after allowing a half-hour intermission for dinner...
...cowboy costumes, worrying, ringing bells, riding horseback forward and backward, crawling on all fours and swinging from the limbs of trees. Naturally, in a picture which contains the Ritzes, there is very little room left for a story. In Straight, Place and Show, Damon Runyon's and Irving Caesar's fairly conventional fable about a young man (Richard Arlen), a young girl (Phyllis Brooks) and an eccentric race horse survives principally as the excuse for two songs by Ethel Merman and a steeplechase climax which, faintly reminiscent of The Hottentot (1920), is one of the most suspenseful...
Stanford. Admirers compared Leland Stanford with Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great and John Stuart Mill, but Partner Collis Huntington described him tersely as "a damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger...
...UNTO CAESAR-F. A. Voigt-Putnam ($3). A long, weary argument by the Foreign Editor of the Manchester Guardian, urging Britain to rearm, for the end of the world is at hand...