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Despite his accomplishments, John Hampden-author, anti-war leader, and father of three-is a dull man. He struts about with quips like, "Of course people mean what they say, but do they always say what they mean?" Not all his lines are from Alice in Wonderland, but most are just as familiar. The dialogues between Hampden and Skillingworth, headmaster of the boys' school, intended to be bitingly acid, are only loud...
...fighting of devils, The Crucible is often grimly instructive. Many of its scenes have real theatrical power. The play at its best is hard-hitting sociological melodrama, though even here it would gain from fewer and more sharply aimed blows. And helped by performances from Arthur Kennedy, Walter Hampden, Beatrice Straight, E. G. Marshall and others, Jed Harris has staged the play with consistent though conventional vigor...
...sensing some promotion material, Groucho decided to ask five Shakespearean authorities for their opinions, wrote letters to Actors Laurence Olivier, Walter Hampden, Charles Laughton and Critics Brooks Atkinson and Richard Watts. Their replies...
...Hampden: "I must judge you wrong in saying a character can appear in a play without making an appearance on stage . . . The question was wrongly put, hence confusing because it included an error. The answer was half right because Pistol is a cowardly braggart. The true answer . . . is that there is no such character. I suggest the show bear the penalty of its error and give the young couple $500 for a correct answer to half the question...
...Walter Hampden in The Man in the Park...