Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard to get and usually cut when got, to fill a Chair of Spiritonomy would be a difficult task. But with sufficient inspiration the incumbent might well make researches of inestimable value to History. Dr. Johnson might be summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...
...wore a conventional cutaway but was supposed to be Waldemar, King of the Danes in the 14th Century, hero of a cycle of poems by Danish Jens Peter Jacobsen. Waldemar loved Tove (Soprano Vreeland) with a deathless love, kept her in a castle at Gurre near Elsinore where royal Hamlet lived. Softly, exquisitely the strings described their passion for one another. Then Helvig, Waldemar's shrewish wife, lad Tove killed. A wood dove (Contralto Bampton) told the tragedy, how Tove's heart was still and the King's own heart strong still, dead and yet strong...
...time on his northern New England farm. In 1929 he traveled on foot and muleback Cortes' route in Mexico, to get first-hand impressions for Conquistador, a first-magnitude effort and suc cess. Other poems: The Happy Marriage, The Pot of Earth, Streets in the Moon, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, New Found Land...
...capitals on either side of the main entrance door of the Fogg Museum are from the Abbey of Santa Maria de Alabanza near the hamlet of Labranza de Pisuerga in the partido of Cervera, province of Palencia, Spain...
...Boston stage, as his transcontinental trip this year is said to be a farewell tour of the country. Sir Philip will continue on his tour from Boston playing chiefly for school and college audiences. Last year he produced and acted in the rarely played first quarto edition of "Hamlet...