Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Famous Film Festival (Sat. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Part I of Laurence Olivier's Hamlet, with Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie...
...such harder tasks as countering the terrific fourth-act drop in pressure, or achieving truly tragic stature for Macbeth, the production failed. Paul Rogers' Macbeth was a heroic enough figure of evil, and at moments a man of intense, Hamlet-like imagination. But the difference between the two men that Saintsbury noted-that Macbeth can never leave off whereas Hamlet can never begin, so that Macbeth is increasingly ruthless and consistently unremorseful-is what makes Macbeth not easily tragic. Rogers could not convey what might make him so: an awful sense of alienation, of that
...step backward from Henry in English history, it is also a step or two downward in Shakespearean art. Yet since the Old Vic's current bill, unlike its earlier one, is all-Shakespearean,* this brilliant bit of early characterization, a sort of watercolorist's Hamlet, was not necessarily ill-chosen. It was a good taking-off point to soar from. And as proof of the Old Vic's feeling for tradition, its reaching for distinction, its high competence in production, Richard was rewarding enough. What reduced a good early work to the level of mere good workmanship...
...hits, other flops, but almost all had either sex or spectacle or both. He did The Hot Mikado ("The only show I ever produced that I liked"), Star and Garter, his first Broadway smash hit, Cole Porter's Mexican Hayride, Catherine Was Great with Mae West, the G.I. Hamlet with Maurice Evans, and an involuntary bit in court, where he was declared bankrupt. Continuing to live lavishly, Todd said, "I was a million in the hole. What was I supposed to do, cut down on my cigars...
Nonetheless, from every hamlet and crossroad, pundits pushed the panic button for Republicans after studying the skies (large parts of Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma and Iowa, as well as Kansas, are suffering from drought) and the statistics (Republicans cringed at an Agriculture Department report last week showing that farm prices had gone down by .5% between mid-August and mid-September). Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop under a What Cheer, Iowa dateline: "Candidate Eisenhower is in deep, deep trouble in the typical Midwestern farm community which surrounds this small town...