Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the supporting cast is not nota ble, the mechanics of production are. Un like Hamlet or Macbeth, which starts racing with the very first scene, Antony lacks pickup. But Director Michael Bent-hall, linking scene to scene with processional figures on a revolving stage, gives the play constant flow. Designer Purse's sets are good-looking and practical; Herbert Menges' music has genuine appeal...
...restraining ties were loosening. British engineers, protected by a paratroop brigade and tanks, bulldozed an evacuated Egyptian hamlet off the ' map to build a road between the garrison and its water filtering plant. Commanding General Sir George Erskine decreed: "All routes in and out of Suez are closed . . . I will not accept armed [Egyptian] police anywhere near my troops...
Four years ago in San Francisco a 63-year-old Chinese matriarch named Sin-shee Jang decided to spend her declining years in the village of her ancestors, a hamlet named Kutow in Kwangtung Province. Sin-shee Jang was an old-country woman: her feet had been bound, and she liked the quiet scenes of her girlhood. Furthermore, in Kutow she owned a 14-room brick house and was a woman of wealth and importance. She bade her five Americanized sons goodbye, and sailed for home...
...President Marion LeRoy Burton of the University of Michigan told a convocation: "You students are lazy. You loaf, you gamble." TIME carried his remarks in the March 24 issue, with a footnote recalling that Hamlet had berated his young contemporaries in Elsinore with the words: "You jig, you amble...
...first walked on stage at 16 in her father's German theater in Manhattan, returned to Germany to study with Starmaker Max Reinhardt, made scores of European films. After a brief marriage to a Hamburg editor, she came to the U.S. again in 1931, played roles ranging from Hamlet's mother to William Powell's screen mistress...