Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ezra Cornell was the leading miller and mechanic of a hamlet called Ithaca on Lake Cayuga. He had little book-learning, much patience and a jaw which his six-inch beard could not hide. He was a Quaker. He had made a fortune (for those days) by his own industry and originality...
Said he: "I would like to produce all the plays of Shakespeare in America. Why doesn't some American magnate try some thing different - Hamlet with Chaplin, for instance, accompanied by good jazz music." Elmer L. Rice, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning play Street Scene, said last week: "After 15 years in the theatre I am convinced that nobody knows anything about it. This play . . . was turned down by all the prominent New York producers who told me it wasn't a play. ... I never have followed rules or technique." Thomas Tunney, Manhattan detective, brother of retired fisticuffer...
...response to a question regarding the other plays he has appeared in. Mr. Hampden said, "I gave almost 500 performances of 'Hamlet,' 600 of the 'Servant in the House,' and 360 of 'Caponsacchi,' 272 of which were consecutive. In the last analysis I prefer playing Shakespeare to any other writer, other dramatists have not the same terrific force that he has Acting Shakespeare is like bathing in the ocean...
...talkie threat. Said Arthur Hammerstein: "The public . . . is skeptical. . . ." Said Florenz Ziegfeld: "Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world." It is obvious that, even if speaking cinemas lose their present lisp and rasp, the illusion produced by an articulate photograph of John Barrymore as Hamlet can never be as satisfying as the illusion produced by Actor Barrymore himself. What is at present the talkies' outstanding attraction?the fact that a picture can talk? must, after its novelty has disappeared, become their outstanding limitation?the fact that it is only a picture that is talking. The greatest menace...
...Stage, flayed B.B.C., last week, for a new and super-autocratic ruling, that the names of actors and actresses in plays put on the air will no longer be announced. Amazing B.B.C. explanation: Hundreds of listeners have complained that when they hear Actor John Doe in the role of Hamlet, having last seen him perhaps as Sherlock Holmes, their visual memory of a detective in a checked overcoat greatly impairs their ability to obtain over the radio an auditory image of a gloomy Dane addressing the skull of "Poor Yorick." If the actor's name is not announced, the British...