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...Sunday night in May, 1925, "The Garrick Gaieties" opened at the Garrick Theatre, with a cast of Theatre Guild understudies and chorus members. The public and critics were enraptured; people went around humming "Sentimental Me" and "Mountain Greenery" the Theatre Guild got its new curtain; and Rodgers and Hart had written their first...
...eight chests contained 1,300 unpublished pages of the Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell's diary, the complete manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Boswell's correspondence with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, David Garrick and Voltaire. Isham had always wanted a place like his alma mater to have them. Last week, Yale bought them all with funds supplied by the McGraw-Hill Co." (which will have exclusive publishing rights) and the Old Dominion Foundation (founded by Paul Mellon, Yale...
...while Shakespeare spun in his grave-London theatergoers saw, and enjoyed, King Lear with a happy ending. In a version by Poet Laureate Nahum Tate, which used most of Shakespeare's plot and many of his lines, it was played by such theatrical greats as David Garrick and Edmund Kean, and applauded by Dr. Samuel Johnson. Even Charles Lamb, who disliked the happy-ending version, conceded that it had a certain stageworthiness when he wrote: "Tate has put his hook in ... this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers ... to draw it about more easily...
...Bardolators, the Oxford University Players took a chance on Tate's happy Lear. Instead of a cruel death by hanging, Heroine Cordelia eventually got her man (Edgar) and a fatherly blessing from a mentally restored Lear. Risking all, the Oxford undergraduates even wore the ruffled costumes of Garrick's day, which gave their stage movements a look of mincing foppishness...
...Garrick could offend, he could also charm. In 1773, Johnson admitted him to the circle, and when he retired from the stage in 1776, the citizens of London gave him tremendous applause at his last performances. To a good many Londoners it was a far more important event than the rebellion then going on in those troublesome American colonies...