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Although claiming that it is "difficult to act in the morning, before dinner," Gielgud consented to entertain his audience with the "Oh, that this too, too solid flesh" soliloquy from "Hamlet...
Pausing between his empassioned recitations, Gielgud took time to answer questions on the ways and means of an interpreter of the Bard, directed to him by course members and Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory...
...John Gielgud, famed Hamlet and King Lear of the English-speaking world, took an enthralled New Lecture Hall audience by storm yesterday, as he whimpered, ejaculated, and sobbed his way through a series of Shakespearian soliloquies, in an unannounced visit to English...
Around himself in this production Gielgud has built a competent but not always sparkling supporting cast. In what is really the play's most significant role, that of lady Bracknell, Margaret Rutherford tries to create her own interpretation one of saga city rather than more overwhelming personality but she does not seem able to escape completely the characterization by Edith Evans, made famous in London and on records, and she does not, therefore, entirely succeed...
Behind the play's success, however, is the performance and direction of Mr. Gielgud. Whether he is dressed in morning for his undeceased and indeed imaginary brother Earnest or merely struggling with the force of Lady Bracknell, Gielgud is worth an evening at the theater...