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...never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo...
...them, that her rich rôles in The Green Hat, The Barretts of Wimpole Street and Lucrece were only part of her apprenticeship as an actress. When she had thoroughly prepared her self, said she, she was going to stand the supreme dramatic test of Shakespeare's Juliet. In Manhattan last week she presented herself in the tragedy that has brought more woe to more ambitious actresses than any other single play. To the satisfaction of critics and public alike, Katharine Cornell proved herself, once & for all, the First Lady of the U. S. Stage...
...crowd) in hand, sawing a short bow over its strings, singing verses. When Henry VIII was dangling Anne Boleyn on his knees, he often called for his favorite virginal player, listened to thin tinkling music from a small piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back to Europe with them from the East...
...holiday, comes an English school teacher whose life has been atrofied by a lifetime of teaching. The romance between the two lasts only for a day and a night; but during that time there comes for the girl an emotional awakening, a balcony scene taken right from "Romeo and Juliet", tragedy in the discovery of her lover's status as a husband, and suffering at her departure for England. The story is a simple one and beautifully conceived...
...club in America today." Chautauqua music lovers hear their own symphony conducted by Albert Stoessel. a Little Symphony conducted by Georges Barrere, solos and lectures by Ernest Hutcheson, John Erskine, many another. Plays presented by the Cleveland Playhouse included last year Hay Fever, Twelfth Night, There's Always Juliet. Walter Hagen described Chautauqua's 18-hole golf course as "one of the best in western New York." Outdoor sports are permitted on Sunday as on all other days. "An administrative committee ... is laying the foundation for a distinguished [1934] program, surpassing in many ways anything Chautauqua has done...