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...doctor's orders he went to a seacoast village in Kenya, Africa, spent the next six months skindiving to rebuild his lungs and suffering through the pangs of withdrawal. He married a Swedish girl, settled in Elsinore, Denmark, in a villa in the shadow of the famed Kronborg Castle, and played throughout Europe for the next three years. When he returned to the U.S. in 1961, he was playing better than ever, helped popularize the bossa nova. One album, with Brazilian Guitarist João Gilberto, was belatedly released last year. It became one of the best-selling jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Back from the Wild Side | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...Denmark for a five-day visit, Richard Nixon squired Pat through Copenhagen's dazzling Tivoli Gardens, careened around in a "dodgem" car there, and toured Hamlet's Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. Then he headed up to Rebild National Park in Jutland to keynote the annual Independence Day Festival there. Speaking before an audience of 40,000 in Rebild's natural amphitheater, the former Vice President drew cheers with an appeal for strength and unity in the face of Communism. Scarcely had he finished speak ing than tragedy struck one of the men who shared the platform with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 13, 1962 | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

Elsinore's rugged Kronborg Castle, setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet, still makes traveling players as welcome as its most famed tenant once did. Since 1937, Denmark has been inviting foreign troupers to re-enact the tragedy right at the scene of the crimes. (Among its title-role guests: Sir Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.) Next week, at the latest revival, Elsinore's visiting players will have traveled for the first time all the way from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Actors Are Come Hither | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...Arctic Ocean, yachting parties, and introductions to government officials. The Danes, who had run out of hotel rooms early in the season last year, were building a string of new hotels. Out to please everyone, they were preparing to stage Hamlet in the courtyard of 365- year-old Kronborg Castle at Elsinore - * with a company from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: The Grand Tour | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...decades had Hamlet been played at Kronborg Castle in Elsinore. The first and only other time was in 1916, during the Shakespeare Tercentenary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Hamlet on the Spot | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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