Word: hilt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which caused many people to think of him as cold and statue like. In Mr. Booth's interpretation of the part of Hamlet, the points where you value the picture of the character most are first; in the scene where he follows the ghost from the stage, holding the hilt of his sword in front of him; and again where, having stabbed Polonius, he turns to the Queen demanding "Is it the King?" Mr. Irving presents varying and sometimes. grotesque attitudes one after another, and the highest pictorial effect by M. Mounet Sully is the fluttering exit after the "Words...
...closet scene. Sometimes he had both portraits on the wall, and sometimes he had one portrait on the wall, and a miniature round his own neck. The one striking bit of new business added by Mr. Booth was his uniform practice already mentioned of holding the cross shaped hilt of his sword before him as he followed the apparation. Mr. Irving has added, among several salient details, the action of Hamlet in rushing up to the throne after the flight of the king and queen, when the play within a play is done. M. Mounet-Sully will probably be best...
Each contestant must provide his own foils and duelling-sword-the regulation No. 5 blade must be used. The diameter of the hilt of the duellingsword must not exceed five inches. All button points must be small...