Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...covey of naked rookie cops bolted out of the shower room at Seattle's police training school, reached the street, and bolted back in when they realized what kind of an impression they were making. A 71-year-old woman jumped off a bridge at a hamlet named Tukwila, and had to be fished out of the Duwamish River. Cows bellowed and loped in pastures...
Even many friendly Viennese were puzzled. Some sought deep significance in the fey comedy; one critic likened Harvey to Hamlet. Moreover, Vienna, which had been proud godmother to Freudian psychiatry, barely recognized that delicate science in its U.S. version. Certainly the alienist in Harvey, who yearns for a maiden and a keg of beer under a shady maple tree, scarcely seemed in the great Viennese tradition of soul-searchers...
...inside Scandinavia" tour, complete with motor trips along the Arctic Ocean, yachting parties, and introductions to government officials. The Danes, who had run out of hotel rooms early in the season last year, were building a string of new hotels. Out to please everyone, they were preparing to stage Hamlet in the courtyard of 365- year-old Kronborg Castle at Elsinore - * with a company from...
...make a movie if the actors, directors, writers and technicians weren't so concerned with making it artistic and winning awards." Even this year's Oscars, Hersholt conceded, were not supported by three companies-Columbia, Republic and Universal-International (which released the top prizewinner, the British-made Hamlet...
...problems, FORTUNE added its voice to an old lament by the critics: the industry is passing up a good bet by producing little to interest the 40 million Americans (mostly over 30) who only occasionally go to the movies. Pointing to the box-office success of Henry V and Hamlet, FORTUNE said: "The audience that made these pictures successful is the market that the industry generally ignores . . . Many good pictures made in Hollywood have shown a loss, and discouraged the producer. But they were never really sold, or they were sold to the wrong audience . . . Actually this lost audience...