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Word: frivolities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Hamlet in 1936. In the interim, the 42-year-old Englishman has played Hamlet at Elsinore, offered British playgoers a cavalcade of the classics, given London a repertory company to rival the Old Vic. For his present visit, Gielgud apparently questioned the importance of being earnest: he would frivol first in Wilde's classic farce, later in Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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