Word: hampdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite these flaws, the value of the play itself shines through, chiefly by virtue of outstanding performances by Eva LeGalliene and Walter Hampden as Queen Katherine and Cardinal Wolsey. It is in the changing views of Wolsey--first the tyrannical, scheming lord of all England, then the pathetic churchman, fallen but still happy in religion--that the play has most of its strength; and Hampden got those concepts across to the audience with rare skill...
...James Hampden Robb...
Front-running Spy Song and stretch-driving Hampden were closest. Elizabeth Arden Graham's even-money entry finished out of the money. Knockdown ran out of gas after seven furlongs; Lord Boswell, with usually shrewd Eddie Arcaro up, twice ran into pockets on the backstretch. This week's $100,000 Preakness at Baltimore would tell whether Assault was really that good...
Ever since then WWJ has been scoring radio firsts right & left. It claims to have broadcast the first play-by-play accounts of baseball and football games, World Series game (1920), prize fight, full symphony concert (with Ossip Gabrilowitsch and the Detroit Symphony). Walter Hampden, Fanny Brice, Fred Waring, Ty Cobb, Lillian Gish and Thomas E. Dewey (singing with an Owosso church choir) made their radio debuts over...
Crammed with dull chatter and paced for obsequies rather than nuptials, And Be My Love is as much sleeping powder as play. Best served by it is Walter Hampden who, by playing an actor, can strut and attitudinize with glorious impunity...