Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamlet read is one thing, Hamlet studied another, and Hamlet acted still another,--the critics agree. But there they stop and the argument begins...
...West and West is West and never the twain shall meet," declared Mr. Kipling and promptly made an exception. He should at the same time have made another exception for the benefit of American novelists. For if the poet were right what would become of the Western novel? Hamlet with Hamlet left out would be complete compared to the Western novel if East and West could not meet. The play thus robbed would still have a plot but the novel would have neither plot nor character...
Opera House.--Robert Mantell with Genevieve Hamper in the standard repertoire in which he established his reputation some decades ago. This afternoon, "As You Like It"; tonight "Hamlet"; Thursday, "Richelieu"; Friday, "Macbeth"; Saturday matinee, "Merchant of Venice"; Saturday night, "Richard...
...remember when we were rehearsing "Hamlet" up in London, a poor little fellow came to me and applied for the part of Second Grave Digger. He was very much discouraged at the way things were going, and he wished the part of Second Grave Digger so he could lie down and pull the grave in after him. By degrees, I got his story from him, and the great outstanding fact about it was that he had neglected to visit, every so often, his home town. Indeed, he couldn't remember where his home town was located, so I made...
...story concerns the doings of young Rolo Webster, who has great aspirations to act Hamlet, and accordingly employs the services of Mr. Stein, a theatrical manager, in order to produce Shakespeare in New York. His sudden attraction for Goldie MacDuff, who is cast as Ophelia, and a grandfather who would much rather see Rollo interested in air-brakes than in acting, cause complications in the plot; while the attempt of Rollo's company to produce Hamlet brings in the farcical element. In places the farce is carried a little too far, and the unreality of it makes it less effective...