Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long run. The considerable amount of money brought in from a play such as Death of A Salesman goes to fill the deficit for some such turkey as Macbeth. And it is useless to exhort the Club not to produce bad plays. The big income for a production like Hamlet is met by equally big expenses for extravagant costumes and costly set construction. If the HDC could reduce spending on these two items, perhaps ticket prices might be lowered to a more reasonable level; certainly cost of a production is not proportionate to its quality. The HDC does have free...
Arab guerrillas who ambushed and killed two British soldiers were reported to be in the village of Danaba (pop. 120), a border hamlet of mud and stone huts. Danaba was warned by leaflet that it would be bombed. Promised the R.A.F. officer commanding the operation: "The fearsome sight will frighten the Arabs . . . a terrific explosion will echo up the hills. The tribesmen will be somewhere watching the show...
...theater workshop, under the direction of Gaynor Bradish '52, Teaching Fellow in English, is concerned mainly with reading and discussing plays informally. They began the year with Hamlet and will progress to such authors as Ibsen and O'Neill...
Comedians traditionally harbor an urge to play Hamlet; in television, a newer tradition has it, they play him offscreen all the time. In Robert Alan Aurthur's Tale. of the Comet, Studio One offered a case history of the TV comic as a tragic hero-a lonely figure tortured by self-defeating uncertainty amid the debris of his fallen ratings. Tim Tully is a onetime top banana who trampled 19 writers in three seasons in his frenzy to stop slipping. As the play opens, he is on the eve of an attempted comeback that seems doomed by his panicky...
...hantan (hard) or membek (soft) -that is the question every Hamlet of Brazil's Urubu Indians must try to answer. Hantan men spend their lives out hunting in the jungle along the Gurupi River; membek fellows stay at home with the girls, which makes them even membeker. The girls like their lovers to be tough, but only because it's more fun tempting them to become membek. And anyone who succumbs to such temptation is liable to be turned into a toad after death. It's all a big problem, the Urubus assured Anthropologist Francis Huxley...