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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Shakespeare open season for 1939-40 started last week* when Maurice Evans reopened on Broadway in his last season's hit, an uncut Hamlet. It proved once again a much more tumultuous and exciting play than the usual cut version. Interesting minor change: This season Polonius wears spectacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Bard and the Box Office | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

This nucleus cannot, however, keep any Shakespeare play on Broadway for long; the rest is a matter of showmanship. Among Shakespeare's works, Hamlet clearly has an edge because its hero's fascinating, elusive character interests many more people than Shakespeare does. But in general-as Shakespeare productions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Bard and the Box Office | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Du Barry Was a Lady tells of a washroom attendant who wins $75,000 in a sweepstakes and tries to marry a nightclub singer. He drinks a Mickey Finn intended for his rival, and dreams that he is Louis XV and the singer Du Barry. This permits an unsurpassably false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Bert Lahr is at his best when he goes royal, wrinkling his sub-Bourbon nose and speaking French as though afraid it might bounce back and hit him. As for Ethel Merman, if she is a little less than kin to Du Barry, she is more than kind-makes her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Gertrude, the average New Yorker's wife, came from an old New England family. "In Gertrude's home in the South it was felt that she might have done better for herself." They were married as soon as they had the price of an automobile, for "in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life of a New Yorker | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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