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...BIBLIOGRAPHY of critical works on Hamlet, they say, is twice as thick as the Warsaw telephone directory; and, on the average, a new study of the play has appeared every 12 days for the past 90 years. What's worse, these figures, instead of intimidating most directors, provoke them to wild excesses of interpretation. After all, they figure, Hamlet can take...
...Spelvin (Jeff Brooks), a theatrical pseudonym for an actor playing a secondary role in a play. Spelvin has unaccountably wandered into stage company that he has never kept. The time is the present, but the other actors arbitrarily inform him that he is Edwin Booth's understudy in Hamlet and must go on tonight since "Eddie" has been injured in a car crash...
...Prince Hamlet thought Uncle a traitor...
...impossible to buy a loaf of bread in Hanover, N.H., this morning. The barber shop and the drug store are closed. Every man, woman and college student in that sickeningly quaint little hamlet has packed his sleeping bag, liter of vodka and can of green spray paint, bundled into his green down jacket and headed south to (and, oh, how I hate this) "Hahvahd" for a weekend of merriment...
This October, for the first time in twenty autumns, a hamlet in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York will be without of Formula One auto race. Watkins Glen, population 3000, has hosted the United States Grand Prix every year since 1961, but this summer the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Corporation could not come up with the prize money demanded by the International Federation of Auto Sport (known by the French acronym of FICA). "In 1970 the Formula One purse was $244,000. Last year we put up one million; this year they wanted 1.2 million," says Malcolm Currie...