Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Shakespeare looked like the Bard of the Volga on his 382nd birthday: his native Stratford blossomed with its customary annual festival, but the Soviet Union broke out all over. Hamlet was a smash in Armenia, King Lear drew iron tears down Tartar cheeks, Two Gentlemen of Verona titillated the Uzbekistanians; altogether, Shakespeare was played to polyglot Russia in 27 languages...
...Hamlet strode into a new Broadway record. Edwin Booth had played him in Manhattan for 100 performances; John Barrymore had perversely made the record 101 after a delegation of Bootholaters begged him to stop at 99. Maurice Evans hit 102 last week and kept on loping...
Peterborough, columnist of the London Daily Telegraph, quoted Hamlet: "I eat the air, promise-crammed...
...always a likable and skillful actor, and Apple of His Eye is a harmless enough little play-as rural and homey, at its best, as an old, dented tin dipper. But its shy and anxious courtship makes a long and languid evening. Farmer Stover shows twice the indecision of Hamlet without any of the excitement. The apple of his eye is a decent, agreeable girl but singularly unobservant. And the worried relatives, gabby neighbors and drawling farm help that punctuate-and protract-the evening are all stock-comedy figures...
...Hamlet's Father. Now, Samuel Charles Webster has written this book to clear his father's name. His argument: Twain's bitterness about Manager Webster was a product of his crusty old age; Webster did a fine job, including the skillful publishing and promotion of the century's two literary smash hits (Huckleberry Finn and General Grant's Memoirs). Webster's evidence: Twain's letters, now published in book form, to "Dear Charley"-many of which show great respect for Webster. and all of'which indicate that Webster would have...