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Barking Bagel. The show she dominates has a big New York sound, full of brass and sentiment, something that could have been written by Horatio Algerstein for the Ladies Home Joinal. A poor Jewish girl with limitless fight and no visible assets claws, clowns and sings her way to the top of show biz. She marries a beautiful cardboard man and realizes her most soaring dreams of love, only to lose him because she is more successful than...
...through the play. During most of the first act she is positively embarrassing, her diction sloppy and her affected gestures worse. But with the "mad scene," her acting undergoes as sharp a transformation as her appearance. She comes onstage with eyes bloodshot, voice quavering and she throws herself upon Horatio, unbuttoning her blouse, pulling up her skirt, then writhing on the stage she gives vent to the sexual impulses her father had ordered her to chain up. It is a powerful...
...There is little of the melancholic in him; in fact, the keynote of his portrayal is almost unbounded energy. He is at his best when Hamlet is near distraction, especially in the almost impossible scene after the ghost has left him alone on the stage. As Marcellus and Horatio enter they come upon a Hamlet whose "wild and whirling words" are no more disordered than his mind. He rushes violently about the stage, his comrades trailing after him. When the voice from the cellerage cries "Swear," Burton breaks into an exultant cackle--almost a giggle--as he recognizes that supernatural...
There is, however, another side, a quieter, more relaxed side, to Burton's Hamlet. This is the gentlemanly prince, out for a walk with Horatio, who comes across a gravedigger and pauses to discuss the shortness of life; this, too, is the musing, reflective Hamlet who recites the "To be or not to be" soliloquy almost without a change of tone, almost without a gesture. Burton's Hamlet begins his speech in a reverie, and remains in it until Ophelia interrupts...
...over 47 incidents of literary or historical interest, yields a density of only 79. Wall Street Wanton, "an original Nightstand Book," sports 16 erogenous incidents. These produce a density of 16.00, since the volume has only one mitigating feature, the historical comparison it suggests between the wholesome perserverance of Horatio Alger's heroes and Cindy Smith's way of making it to the top today. Sin on the Continent featuring a "Revealing Fold Out Cover," chronicles choice episodes in the adventures of Art Romer, a systems engineer from Furitvale, Idaho, who specializes in the bored wives of traveling businessmen. With...