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Henry V was all simple, engaging action, and Olivier gave it a clarion confidence and sweetness. Hamlet is action in near-paralysis, a play of subtle and ambiguous thought and of even subtler emotions. Olivier's main concern has been to keep these subtleties in focus, to eliminate everything that might possibly distract from the power and meaning of the language. He has stripped the play and his production to the essentials. In the process, he has also stripped away a few of the essentials. But on the whole, this is a sternly beautiful job, densely and delicately worked...
Brushing Off the Webbs. In less time than it takes to say Emmeline Pankhurst, Rebecca West was in London writing literary criticism on the Freewoman's staff. A year later she was a full-fledged political writer on the old Socialist Clarion, and a member of that Socialist intellectual advance guard, the Fabian Society. Its pundits, Sidney & Beatrice Webb, had her in for dinner, but "I argued with the Webbs, so I was never invited back...
...families of Kuomintang members who had died fighting Japanese and Communists, Soong donated his personal shares in three subsidiaries of the China Development & Finance Corp. (which operates railroads, coal mines, power plants). Commented the China Press: "Commendable magnanimity. ... A clarion call for action. . . . Those with wealth know what they should...
Earhay eyay! earhay eyay! With this clarion call, Dunster House summoned all students of the ancient and honorable language of pig-latin to the first meeting of its pig-latin dining table tonight, while the nearby Spanish mesa showed its disgust at the swinish attempt to hog student support...
Conservative Critic Kenyon Cox sounded a brave but ineffectual clarion: "Believing, as I do, that there are still commandments in art as in morals, and still laws in art as in physics, I have no fear that this kind of art will prevail, or even that it can long endure...