Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King Ocdipus will once again kill his father and marry his mother, and Prince Hamlet will be just as confused as he was the last time, as Professor Poggioli studies "Ideas of Tragedy" on Long fellow Terrace. Most of the other well-known victims of Fate and playwrights will appear too, in "Comparative Literature...
...Stevenson's likening her ex to Hamlet [Aug. 22] may not be too farfetched at that. If Adlai should be nominated in '56, one of the major ghosts he'll be haunted with was born on the night he conceded defeat back in 1952. When a reporter asked him if he would run again for the presidency, Adlai snapped: "Have that man's head examined...
...activities of Harriman and Kefauver constitute a certain amount of pressure on Stevenson to announce his intentions. Further pressure was applied last week, no doubt unwittingly, by Stevenson's exwife, Mrs. Ellen Borden Stevenson, when she told reporters in an interview that Adlai was a "Hamlet" who "could not make up his mind...
...Psychoanalyst's Nightmare is fun with Freud. Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Romeo are psychoanalyzed by Dr. Bombasticus, end up as respectable Rotarians deeply ashamed of their "adolescent" behavior in Shakespeare's plays. "[The doctor] showed me," says Romeo, "that my real motivation was rebellion against the father . . . enabled me to become a staid and worthy upholder of the honor of the Montagues." Says Hamlet: "Dr. Bombasticus persuaded me that I was very young and had no understanding of statecraft. I apologized to my mother for any rude things I might have said." Moral: An ounce...
Died. Walter Hampden, 75, stage, screen and television actor, famed as one of the century's topflight interpreters of high romantic drama; of a stroke; in Hollywood. Hampden scored his first major critical success at 26 in England, as a substitute for Sir Henry Irving in Hamlet. His touring repertory company (formed in 1908) brought him fame as one of the most versatile Shakespearean actors of his day. He turned to character roles in the movies (All This and Heaven Too, Sabrina) and radio, but was unhappy about having to adapt his style to modern low-key scripts. "Continuation...