Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...village of Een (pop. 900) used to be just another quiet hamlet in the northern Netherlands. By last week Een had become a bustling mecca for 1,500 once desperate, now hopeful people. Bicycles were stacked up against a lilac tree in the village; cars from every Dutch province thronged the narrow main road. Rich or poor, they all came to be treated by Een's Wonderkapper (miracle barber), who grows hair on bald heads...
Elsinore's rugged Kronborg Castle, setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet, still makes traveling players as welcome as its most famed tenant once did. Since 1937, Denmark has been inviting foreign troupers to re-enact the tragedy right at the scene of the crimes. (Among its title-role guests: Sir Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.) Next week, at the latest revival, Elsinore's visiting players will have traveled for the first time all the way from...
Blessed by the U.S. State Department, the trip was inspired and partly financed by wealthy Blevins Davis, patron of the ballet and board member of the American National Theater and Academy. The 26-member troupe, with ANTA Executive Secretary Robert Breen playing Hamlet, was bolstered with some veteran Broadway talent: Aline MacMahon as the Queen, Walter Abel as the King, Clarence Derwent as Polonius. But the production, geared for ten outdoor performances in the castle's great courtyard, was born in Abingdon...
...Shanghai," were wined & dined as the city's guests. On two-day furloughs, they relaxed in bathhouses, had haircuts "on the house," attended Chinese opera at the Heavenly Frog Theater, peepshows at the Great World Amusement Center. They even sat doggedly through Laurence Olivier's cinema Hamlet...
Gaiety, high spirits, even joy surge up in Author Churchill at the thought of the hour's magnificence and his place in it-to stand, supreme at last, in an hour of desperate hope, and to find his mood echoed in every city and hamlet of Britain. The prospect of Nazi invasion is inspiring, providing "the chance of striking a blow at the mighty enemy which would resound throughout the world...