Word: hamlets
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Typical Town? With Art Linkletter as host, and the stars twinkling on and off in a series of filmed interviews, Beverly Hills was jokingly presented as a fabled little hamlet whose 600 doctors and 500 lawyers make it "the sickest and crookedest town in the country." Then, brushing aside the jokes, the show tried to present Beverly Hills as a typical American town-and merely succeeded in stripping it of its glamour. Introduced were a churchgoing father of four (Jimmy Stewart), a home-loving, family-raising couple (Rory Calhoun and Lita Baron), a beauty who spends her time quizzing kids...
Particularly challenging is Othello, perhaps Shakspere's finest play and certainly his greatest Baroque-styled drama (as distinguished from his Renaissance plays like Romeo and his Mannerist plays like Hamlet and Lear). For all its length, Othello lacks the usual extraneous trappings and non-essentials; yet Welles has come up with a film exactly 90 minutes long. Obviously this required extensive cutting of the original; and Welles fully realized the impossibility of trying simply to photograph a stage production of the play. The result is not Shakspere's Othello, but Welles' adaptation and interpretation of the Othello tale using Shakspere...
...received in a strange town?particularly when the troupe is English and the town is Moscow. Last week, for the first time since the 1917 revolution, an English theatrical company was playing in the Soviet capital. It had come to town with an old Russian favorite: Shakespeare's Hamlet (which was presented in the Russian theater of the 1930s as a story of the triumph of a young revolutionary). The Hamlet was a new production (in English) that had not even been proved in London, boasted but a single starkly simple set, and offered a talented but young...
First-nighters were not disappointed. They saw a fast-moving, 3-hr.-20 min. Hamlet. When the house lights went on at the end of the play, the entire audience rose to its feet and surged down toward the stage. An immense (6 ft. tall) bouquet was sent up to the actors, who took 16 curtain calls, during the last three of which the audience chanted Scofield's name in unison. After the applause had been going on for so long that the actors felt the need to introduce some variety, they applauded the audience for their reception. Said Actor...
Unlike the audience. Pravda's Critic Boris Zakhava did not allow himself to be swept away. But he did call the direction "bold and bright,'' and Scofield's Hamlet "clean and honest." Editorially, Pravda called the audience enthusiasm "a demonstration of the friendly feelings of the Soviet people for the English people." The demonstration was carried on nightly at the stage door after the show in a form familiar to the West: hordes of teen-age girls descended on Scofield and mobbed him for autographs...