Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nikita Balieff, master of the Chauve Souris, told friends in London of a recent call he made on Mr. Coolidge: "I kept awake all night preparing a little speech to tell Mr. Coolidge all about his noble country and his noble self. .... Mr. Coolidge seized my hand and said: 'How do you do?' Then he seized it again and said: 'Goodbye.' I was out of the White House in forty seconds. Fortunately his countrymen listened to me with more patience than...
...line dramatic critics have recently been aghast at the impertinence of the King's Way theatre in London in producing "Hamlet" in modern settings and modern costumes. In this production the melancholy Dane himself wore a well-tailored pair of knickerbockers. Ophelia went raving mad in the old regrettable fashion, even though quite up to date with a boyish bob and scandalously short skirt; and Laertes proved himself an adept at inhaling cigarettes. On the face of it, the play thus produced appeals as a clever burlesque; yet the producers seem to have been quite serious, being convinced that, after...
Reports from London indicate that the results were more encouraging than any of its sponsors probably dared hope when the project was set on foot. In five minutes the audience had forgotten the novelty of the costuming and stage properties and were completely absorbed in the play. Shakespeare's art asserted itself as infinitely superior to a tendency to giggle when Hamlet appeared in modern clothes; and the upshot of the matter was that only those Londoners were amused by the idea who had not seen the play...
Such an experiment may be looked upon merely as an amusing episode in the London season, and yet it shows beyond all doubt that in these days of moving pictures and elaborate costume play, true acting still depends on the power and expression of the spoken word...
Against the background of early Massachusetts, and the London of James II and William III and the early life of the colonies, Kenneth Ballard Murdock '16, Instructor in English at the University, has formed his biography, "Increase Mather, The Foremost American Puritan." Mr. Murdock's volume is a fully documented vindication of the stern old Puritan's character. The story of his connection with Harvard College in its earliest years is fully told. This book will be published October...