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...gives a performance which is remarkable for its interpretation of a difficult role; Henry Edwards keeps up a distinctly superior standard as the unsympathetic Claudius; and Miles Mallcson, as Polonius, steals every scene in which he appears. Other lesser roles are well filled, too, with only Philip Foster as Horatio and Nelson Leigh as the Ghost declining toward the mediocre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/23/1947 | See Source »

Thirteen years later, another British army, under General Horatio Herbert Kitchener (thenceforth known as K of K, Kitchener of Khartoum), set out to avenge Gordon. As the dervishes tried to cut their way out in a ferocious surge known as the Battle of Omdurman, a young cavalry officer named Winston Churchill got in the way, nearly lost his life. Dervish power was smashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUDAN: The Mahdi's Return | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...York Times music critic Downes will be chairman at the final meetings, at which Otto Kinkeldy, Horatio Appleton Lamb, Visiting Lecturer at the University, and Paul Lang, editor of "Musical Quarterly' and professor of Music at Columbia University, will speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomson and Downes To Top List of Critics At Music Symposium | 1/14/1947 | See Source »

...says, he was born "in a room above a quiet corner saloon." As a boy he read avidly-and saved his books until he had enough to start a lending library. ("Now," says Ted, "I never read books. I read myself out as a child. I started with Horatio Alger and went right through the Rover Boys.") And as a boy he got the idea that he would like to be a professional talker. "I dreamed about my name on an office door," he recalls. "Ted Husing, Commentator." After batting around in a dozen jobs, from carnival shill to real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Thank You, Mr. Husing! | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...Horatio does stay at sea long enough to dampen Flame's mutiny and to steal a fully laden French West Indiaman right out from under Boney's nose. That done, he goes ashore in France-where Novelist Forester finishes him off with a peerage, Bourbon pals and an indirect, improbable part in the victory at Waterloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hornblower's Exit | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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