Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week there was no school in Pompey Hollow. Pert, pretty Esther De Lee, who used to teach in the little upstate New York hamlet, was staring defiantly across a courtroom in nearby Syracuse. Glowering back at her was James N. Armstrong, Pompey Hollow's lean, sallow school trustee. Every one of Pompey Hollow's twelve schoolchildren was in the courtroom. So too were their parents, their parents' friends, Miss De Lee's friends and Mr. Armstrong's friends...
Back to Pompey Hollow that night, long after milking time, trekked the 19 families. This week, pending a decision which might be months in coming, the hamlet went back to work. School opened with its third teacher since Esther De Lee was dismissed...
Once called by his friends "the Jewish Hamlet," because of his lean, ascetic face, Mr. Nathan now boasts a growing waistline that causes him to toy with the idea of substituting sailing for such strenuous pastimes as fencing and tennis. He will no longer play the cello, for his professional cellist wife, Nancy Wilson, makes him embarrassed about his inferior skill...
Down a California highway toward Los Angeles, late one afternoon, roared a car whose driver had pulled a hat down over his face, wedged an unlighted cigar between his teeth. Close behind roared a motorcycle policeman. At the hamlet of Santarita the car slowed down and the motorcycle drew alongside. The speeder stopped, pushed up his hat, ripped out his cigar. Said he: "Yes, I am Barney Old' field To Speeder Oldfield, first man ever to drive an automobile one mile in one minute, now a special advertising man for Chrysler Motors, the policeman handed a ticket for driving...
...talent has been wasted on an unhappy choice of vehicle, but it must be admitted with all due respect to the dramatiser of Cyrano that "L'Aiglon" is a poor play. Restand may have believed that Napoleon's son offered the material for the creation of a modern Hamlet but he neglected to appreciate the difference between his skill and that of Mr. Shakespeare--a not inconsiderable difference. The pitiful sight of a weakly Napoleon II striving to regain the position which his father held is admittedly sad but it's not great drama. In addition to the intrinsic weaknesses...