Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alack, and fie for shame. . . . and others of the warped lyrics of Ophelia-the Ophelia whom the Hamlet of John Barrymore demented. Her present performance gives pledge of a considerable ability in light opera if presented without so many physical restrictions. Her colleagues were moderately well equipped for other assignments. Particularly pleasant was Edgar Stehli's interpretation of the rotund Bunthorne...
...unfavorable sort, and evidently Brooklyn has become infected with the virus. The city of Walt Whitman and Henry Ward Beecher, not content with being known as the terminus of the subway, wants its own little murders duly credited to Brooklyn. A journalistic plot to make Brooklyn into an obscure hamlet of two and one half million souls must certainly exist. The Chamber of Commerce is out to frustrate that conspiracy...
Under the New President. Abruptly, the scene shifts from the Golden Gate to the hills of Vermont. Reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock at the door of a white farmhouse in the little hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit, dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office taken at dawn and the next chapter is inaugurated...
Hassan was produced after a London model which had run successfully and was therefore deemed; Art. This London model, based on 1904 specifications, was flavored with old-fashioned Hamlet. Hassan is a semi-poetical drama with great beauty lingering in its words. The combination was too strong for the director (Basil Dean). He produced Hassan with all the pomposity of out-at-the-elbows Shakespeare...
...Park, Ill. It is in one act, consumes only 40 minutes' time, was composed by M. Félix Fourdrain, and was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, in 1907. It is called La Légende du Point D'Argentan. The story. The hamlet of Argentan has been famous for its point-lace, of which the secret design has been lost. For this design, the local seigneur, wishing to present a magnificent robe to the Queen of France, has offered a handsome reward. In the village dwells a beautiful damsel, Rose-Marie. Her parents...