Word: hamlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...translation from page to stage owes much to George Hamlin, who directed the Loeb version; but it owes more to Daniel Seltzer, who acted Lear. Those of us who saw Seltzer as Falstaff and Faustus expected that he could meet the test of King Lear, and he does. In a role which demands an incomparably exhausting range of emotions, Seltzer manages them all. From the first scene, an unlikely, impossible beginning, his Lear was "every inch a king." In that scene he made the mythology work, starting at a tremendous pitch and moving past it. Lear roars, cries, whispers, laughs...
...Hamlin's direction, then, exploits most of the resources of the play. What is good is very, very good; what is bad is hardly worth mentioning. The world of Lear, moved by the spare, shaved verse of Shakespeare's maturest style, comes to life for most of an evening before leaving on the white robes of Lear's old sacrifices and new death. If at times the drama seems too difficult or the production too loud, we should remember that the best part of the play goes on in our minds, and, I suppose, our hearts...
...leads were unexceptionable and unexceptional. Rittenhouse as Antony delivered his funeral oration energetically to a rabble that performed with precision, though perhaps their screaming responses were too loud and too frequent. In the second half Rittenhouse too was swept away with a pace that seemed to overwhelm everyone. George Hamlin as Caesar was remarkable in making almost no impression while on the stage. He was overshadowed by his attendants in the procession scene, and by the conspirators on the way to the Capitol...
...Boylston Prizes for public speaking were awarded last night after 10 finalists in the competition recited selections ranging from Clearence Darrow's defense of Loeb and Leopold, to Robert Brownings's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin...
...paragraph or forget the carbon. Or, worst of all, he tosses with the dream of the Great Confrontation, the dream where he passes through life talking to friends, making love, delivering speeches, always searching in vain for the appropriate quote from his intensive study of the complete works of Hamlin Garland...