Word: hotspur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figure who must carry the tragic implications of the play, Mendy Weisgal put an evening of intense effort into the part of Hotspur but gave at best an uneven performance. Weisgal's gestures were artificial, he threw away many of his lines--and much of the motivation of the plot, for those who didn't know it--and added touches of external heightening in places where they destroyed the illusion of the performance. But in certain scenes--the early letter scene, for example--he rose to a distinctly superior level...
...five leads were cast during one-week tryouts last April, and have been spending summer months digesting Shakespearian dialogue. They are Bryant N. Haliday '49 as Henry, Prince of Wales; Kilty as Falstaff; Mendy Weisgal '45 2G as Hotspur; Thayer David as King Henry the Fourth; and Robert L. Wechsler '49 as the Earl of Worcester...
Thayer David '48 will play the lead part of King Henry. Mendy Weisgal 1G, the Dauphin in the VTW's "St. Joan" last winter, will appear as Hotspur in next fall's play. Donna Holabird, cast in the leading role last winter, will take over the role of Lady Hospur in "Henry...
Theater's and Cinema's Man of the Year was Laurence Olivier, whose Oedipus and Hotspur reminded Broadway of the difference between adequacy and excellence, and whose Henry V could not have reminded Hollywood of anything it had ever seen before. Sportsmen of the year came in pairs: Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder re-won the Davis Cup for the U.S. in the year's last week, and Army's Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis made their last appearance in the game against Navy that was almost lost in two of the most exciting minutes...
Hearst's King Features Syndicate last week paid $1,500 for the comic-strip rights to Duchess Hotspur, Rosamond Marshall's flashy, trashy, bedroomy bestseller about a flaunting, extravagant queen in 18th Century London. Purpose: to run it in November as a cartoon-&-text feature in the New York Mirror and other Hearst papers-now tapering off on their anti-dirty book campaign...