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...bombs which never materialized. And the Government began to realize that wolf-wolfing the populace every night was poor psychology. A reaction set in. In "safe" areas, 2,000 cinemas opened, reported exceptional business. Actors went on the road: 73-year-old Dame Marie Tempest in Dear Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned male comedians' parts would be taken for the first...
...John Gielgud, willowy portrayer of historic neurotics (Hamlet, Richard...
...four a week during his last summer vacation in Brittany. London's definitive exhibition took three years to arrange with the help of Artist Wood's mother, to whom he wrote regularly, describing his work. Private lenders included Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Lady Cunard, Actor John Gielgud, Writer A. J. Cronin, and D. H. Lawrence's friend, Lady Ottoline Morrell...
Showing the last step in the history of "Hamlet" presentations are photographs of productions of John Barrymore and the current one of John Gielgud...
Great Hamlets of the stage from David Garrick to John Gielgud may be seen in photographs and engravings now on exhibition in the Widener Library...