Word: hampdens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barrymores, though actually of Hampden's age (John is now 47; Lionel, 50; Hampden, 48) seemed too young. Otis Skinner seemed ruled out by his hostility to the Actors' Equity Association. So Walter Hampden really had no rival as "Uncle John" Drew's successor...
...seal the investiture, The Players unanimously elected him in October 1927 to succeed "Uncle John" as their president. And last fortnight another seal was added when Manhattan's Lotos Club hailed Actor Hampden as guest of honor and made speeches about...
There are, of course, a great many people who feel that Actor Hampden has been Dean for a number of years. And there are plenty of other people?O'Neill addicts and the like?who believe that any man who can take Shakespeare seriously must be full of stuff and bombast. Whatever the case, Actor Hampden would be the last to worry about it one way or another, and last week found him proceeding comfortably into the third month of his second triumphal revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, with his own company, under his own direction, in his own theatre...
...Dean Hampden is the only actor-manager, in the sense of the term as it was applied to such as Edwin Booth and Richard Mansfield, in the U. S. today. He is the financial and artistic force "behind every play shown in the Walter Hampden Theatre on upper Broadway. A beardless patriarch, aged only 48, he follows his profession with perhaps sterner self-discipline but with more self-consciousness than his brothers, Paul, John, and Malcolm, have developed in following their respective professions of painting, law and literature...
Nine years ago, he began to arrange the scenery, lighting and costumes for Hampden's plays and he has done them all ever since. He began on Hamlet; in Cyrano he achieved his masterpiece, as Hampden achieves his. Claude Bragdon is now 62, twice-married, a theosophist, Buddhesque of countenance, a rare person...