Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tragi-comic epic of the seeker of self-realization, effectively staged by Kommisashevsky, master of the Russian School of Expressionism, and competently acted by Joseph Schildkraut. Some of the settings by Lee Simonson mark the high points in his enviable record of artistic achievement. ROMEO AND JULIET-Next to Hamlet the longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn Hunter in Harry Leon Wilson's adroit satire on the eighth art, adapted for the stage by Marc...
...they has went. They has went so far that the Pudding show comes perilously close to being in fact the thing which is reported annually of the Show--the best show since Jamie Wilder batted the first imported ukulele in "Hamlet" of '93. Jamie Wilder's son is in the chorus of "Take a Brace", which only goes to show how time flies. To return to Mr. Henry and Mr. Nichols, who after all are legally responsible for the trouble that last night caused two or three hundred graduates to throw up their sweaty nightcaps and stop the show, they...
...King Lear, at the Theatre Francois. Later, feeling her intense individuality cramped by the rooted traditions of the Francais, she left it after repeated quarrels. Her greatest part was probably that of Zanzetti in Coppee's Le Paseant. She has appeared in over 200 roles, among them Hamlet and her other celebrated masculine part, l'Aiglon. Bernhardt was almost fanatically patriotic, and engaged extensively in war work both in the War of 1870 and the World War. It was during the latter that she was forced to have her leg amputated, an operation to which she submitted with...
...painted by Rembrandt, if by any one. His pictures glow with a peculiar mellow intensity that can hardly have existed in the actual scene before him. While the light from Rembrandt's brush falls on them, they are people in a dream, creatures of imagination as much as Hamlet, Pickwick, Lear. If the light were turned out there would remain only burgomasters, doctors, old women paring their nails, painted with marvelous, sometimes brutal, truthfulness to actual life in 17th century Holland. In the panel recently discovered, which represents the marriage of Alexander the Great with Roxane, five sources...
...Russians of the Moscow Art Theatre did not like either Hamlet or The Hairy Ape. But after seeing Laurette Taylor in Humoresque, Constantin Stanislavsky, one of the two founders and directors, remarked: " It is a marvelous adventure in realism !" So saying, he climbed up on the stage and congratulated Miss Taylor...