Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While George V and Queen Mary were pondering Hamlet Stratford-on-Avon celebrated Shakespeare's birthday (rainy) with Othello. At high noon the flags of all nations were broken out in the public square by their diplomatic representatives-all except the Stars & Stripes...
...believed the story, his uncle John Drew said: "I believe every word of it. It took a convulsion of Nature to make him get up, and the U. S. Army to make him go to work." As his success grew, he took acting more seriously. He played Hamlet successfully in England in spite of unfavorable comment from George Bernard Shaw. For a long time he had alternated cinemas with his plays. Four years ago he went to Holly wood permanently. He takes pleasure in insulting film magnates and commenting mockingly on their methods. Cast in The Sea Beast, made from...
...Leiber's company is for the delectation of the tolerant second school. Mr. Leiber's settings and costumes often suggest a theatrical rummage sale; his supporting cast is apt to make up in exuberance what it lacks in finesse. But Mr. Leiber, with energy enough to play Hamlet, Macbeth and Shylock on successive nights, has also gusto enough to concentrate attention on himself, a worthy and gifted player. He sometimes skims his roles but never tortures them...
...presents Shakespeare that lacks glamour but makes sense. His Hamlet and Shylock are thoroughly understandable men beset by "equally perceivable woes. His Petruchio is an excruciating shrew-tamer. During his first Manhattan week he also played Macbeth, Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Richard...
...players, who during the past week have appeared at the Hollis Theatre in "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Hamlet", and other plays, will inspect the Shakespearian relics and other dramatic treasures which the Memorial Room houses...