Word: mercutio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately the Playgoer saw Brian Aherne's Mercutio and thus finds Ralph Richardson not quite up to former's perfection. He is very appealing and reads his lines with verve which charms but he is not quite Mr. Aherne. Thus also with Maurice Evans in the difficult role of Romeo. He hasn't Basil Rathbone's experienced skill but he does give the part a youthfully romantic vigor which his predecessor failed to achieve. Charles Waldron is still fine as Friar Lawrence, and Florence Roed is excellent as the nurse, though perhaps not quite up to the standard which Edith...
...late Senator Walsh dropped dead two days before his elevation to the Cabinet. If Bronson Murray Cutting had died fortnight ago of prosaic disease in a prosaic bed, instead of meeting violent death in an airplane, his exit from the political stage would still have been dramatic. For like Mercutio he died an early death while the play was but half played...
...Unending Sorrow," Po Chu-I, translated by Witter Bynner; Arthur Szathmary '37, giving an excerpt from Edward Arlington Robinson's "Tristram"; Paul Killiam, Jr. '37, who will give an excerpt from "Poetry and the Moods of the Public," by Maurice Baring; Roy W. Winsauer '36, who will give Mercutio's speech on Queen Mab from "Romeo and Juliet"; and Shiperd Robinson, giving excerpts from James Bryant Conant's 1934 Baccalaureate Sermon...
...will give Robert Emmet's last speech at his trial before his death; Arthur Szathmary '37, giving a selection from Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Tristram"; Alexander N. Vardack '35, who will give Victor Hugo's "Last Day of a Condemned Man"; and Roy W. Winsauer '36, who will give Mercutio's speech on Queen Mab from "Romeo and Juliet...
...Miss Cornell's excellent supporting company. Particularly good was Edith Evans as the Nurse. Miss Evans speaks lines which are usually expurgated with a wholesome bawdry which somehow manages to dodge the usual tiresome vulgarity of the part. Brian Aherne, in a curly red wig, is an ebullient Mercutio, gay as May in the Queen Mab speech, bitter as gall when he dies cursing "both your houses." Capable but less distinguished as Romeo is Basil Rathbone, whose virtuosity appears to stop just this side of eloquence. His pausing, prosy delivery is perhaps better suited to modern evening dress than...