Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history of Crawley is extremely interesting from many standpoints," Professor Gras explained yesterday. "One can trace its economic and social life through centuries. I have photostats of records gathered from strong boxes of peasants, in the city hall, and in London of the exact activities of the hamlet since the year 1208. These unbroken records are very seldom found of English villages. In my study I want to emphasize, however, not only the remote past but its present condition...
...earth, a Hudson closed car turned into hard-boiled Railroad Street, closely followed by a Peerless sedan. Crowding the Hudson to the gutter, the Peerless paused to belch a noisy blast of powder and lead slugs from several pump guns. Then it vanished toward the neighboring hamlet of Moosic, where it was abandoned, the occupants slipping away into a dense forest. In the shattered Hudson on Railroad Street lay Alexander Campbell, labor leader, and his friend Peter Reilly, both of them horribly dead...
...alter all the plays of Shakespeare, to make the lines and the costumes up-to-date, it can't be done. We tried it with Hamlet for four nights when we played in Cleveland, but we found that nothing was gained and much lost. In every work, Shake speare has created a background and an environment which, if taken away, destroys the greatness of the play. For instance. 'Romeo and Juliet' requires the romance-breathing Italian atmosphere, while the more blatant, boisterous plays would not be out of place in any country but England. This we found...
...John Phillips Kemble collection there appears the playbill for the first: appearance of Kemble at Drury Lane Theatre as Hamlet in 1783, and the later debut of Edmund Kean as Shylock in the same theatre...
...Widener Treasure room this week. The collection is now twice as large as it was when started by the late Professor F. S. Childs many years ago. The Chapmen, from whence the book gets its name, existed several centuries ago and travelled all over the country visiting town and hamlet. He became the purveyor of literature, and was the only means whereby the people could get literature of any sort...