Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flinging florins to the grovelling gold-thirsty who had waited for the death of Volpone. Mosca need not be named in Boston as Alfred Lunt's part; Mr. Larimore has all the grace, and enough of the busy play of expression that belonged to the actor-guardsman. In Hamlet black, with a tight head of red curls that are in a mad way exact for the role, Mosca moves swiftly, and used the stage from footlights to lagoon balcony and from box to box. At times his fingers, fitting the gilded carvings of the Hollis side pillars are all that...
Nine years ago, he began to arrange the scenery, lighting and costumes for Hampden's plays and he has done them all ever since. He began on Hamlet; in Cyrano he achieved his masterpiece, as Hampden achieves his. Claude Bragdon is now 62, twice-married, a theosophist, Buddhesque of countenance, a rare person...
...lazy, rambling hamlet of less than 500 population on the long sandy reef that tidies up the ragged eastern shore of North Carolina. The reef at Kitty Hawk encloses Albemarle Sound; further south it makes Pamlico Sound...
...program-thumbing defeatism, still the members of the Cercle show a heartening discontent with mere conventional performance. The staging of seventeenth century plays in modern dress is not entirely unprecedented, but hitherto the creations of Moliere have been passed over by the managers who have put Hamlet and Macbeth into sack suits. Modernistic scenery in various phases has appeared rather frequently on American stages, as patrons of the Dramatic Club have discovered, but heretofore the French plays at Harvard, as generally throughout the country have been characterized by an eager duplication of the traditional mode...
Florence Reed has never before played a Shakespearian role though she rehearsed in Hamlet with E. H. Sothern in 1907. She devoted her talents in 1917 to the long continued spectacularities of Chu Chin Chow, wherein Ali Baba and his robbers concealed themselves at the Manhattan Opera House ; hers also was the somewhat wanton Shanghai Gesture...