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...commonly foisted upon the original character in recent years, Mr. Evans' interpretation is vigor ous, and comparatively speaking, simple. To the ghost, Hamlet shows a nature capable of passionate hatred; to his uncle, he is actively hostile, not sullen or melancholy; to Polonius, he is flip, humorous; to Ophelia, deeply in love; to his mother, pitiless, scornful. Even when alone, Hamlet the melancholy philosopher is subordinate to Hamlet the emotional youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

Unfortunately, very little credit for this performance can go to the Dramatic Club. The few lines that call for acting, such as Miss Spencer's "mad Ophelia" scene, are read by women, while the men in the cast are uniformly poor, always excepting Mr. Sever and possibly Jervis B. McMechan '42. Moreover the man responsible for the revision of the play, as well as its direction and staging, is Jack Munro, a 28-year-old Canadian actor and author who boasts "a crimson past but no connection with Harvard." In spite of this outside assistance, or quite possibly because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

...story is that of a great young Shaksperian actor who regains his self-respect by acting like a beast in a household not used to people who speak Elizabethan words over a kippered herring. Satirizing himself with grace, Mr. Howard tries hard to make a crazy Ophelia fall out of love with him, so that she will fall back in love with her fiance. At the same time Mr. Howard is pressed to keep the love of "Joyce," while Eric Blore packs and repacks bags, makes bird noises, and sticks his tongue out at a little girl who knows every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXAM TROUBLES | 1/7/1938 | See Source »

When he was 17, Lee Townsend bought his first race horse, Ophelia Martin. He rode her and other men's horses at county fairs in Illinois for a couple of years before his left foot was smashed in a spill. By that time Lee Townsend knew that he wanted to be an artist. So with the money he had saved he went to Chicago's Art Institute for two years, then to Manhattan, where he worked in a drawing class with Mahonri Young. Since then, except for one frugal year in Paris, Artist Townsend has been back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Horse Painting | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

...became a marine museum. Last week a troupe from London's Old Vic company played the drama of the melancholy prince on the designated spot-at Kronborg Castle. Directed by Tyrone Guthrie, Laurence Olivier (The Green Bay Tree) took the name part opposite Vivien Leigh's Ophelia. Cadets of the Danish Military Academy acted as soldiers and courtiers. A gale the previous day had left a high sea running and the muffled thunder of waves played a direful counterpoint to the dialog...

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

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