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According to Kitty, the production will attempt to get away from the traditional nineteenth century. Hamlet, a middle-aged romantic with a mature, if resigned philosophy of life. The HTW Hamlet will be adapted to a college-audience and to a college cast...
Hurling a provocative challenge that touches every citizen at all American colleges and universities, the First Report of the President's Commission on Higher Education has cleared the air of Nineteenth Century dogma by announcing that these institutions "can no longer consider themselves merely the instrument for producing an intellectual elite; they must become the means by which every citizen . . . is enabled and encouraged to carry his education as far as his native capacities permit...
...dangerous symptoms of dramatic activity broke out during the first half of the nineteenth century. A certain Holworthy was famed among members of the Class of 1848 as an actor for his displays in Hasty Pudding mock trials, but Holworthy himself had never considered his achievements theatrical. "I don't remember any plays," he said. "In that time I do not think plays of any kind would have been permitted...
John Cogan, the first Crimson harrier to finish, wound up tenth, Bill Baker was eleventh, and Captain Huna Rosenfeld was twelfth. Ardan Albee--nineteenth--and John Anderson--twenty first--completed the Varsity scoring...
...important reason why the percentage of excellent films is so small. "Great Expectations" is a great picture. No one factor made it so. The novel by Dickens is not one of his very best, but it is rich with the crowded, humorous, hypocritical, grotesque, vigorous, and tragic life of Nineteenth-Century England. The producers of the picture have reproduced this life, giving it the sounds and scenes that were everyday to the Victorian, and have put into it characters that speak as Dickens must have intended them to speak, and look like the work of his illustrator, Cruikshank...