Word: othello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calls "Sweets." When he finished school in Belfast, where his father is a biology professor, Errol Flynn got bit parts on the London stage, later went to Tahiti, bought a boat, fished for pearls, prospected for gold in New Guinea. Back in London he got stage parts in Othello, Another Language, The Constant Nymph. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), brawny (180 lb.), he boxed on England's 1928 Olympic team...
Through this organization Mr. Packard was able to contact Edwin Booth Grossman, grandson of the actor. Mr. Grossman had two wax cylinder records, one of Othello's speech to the Venetian senators concerning the wooing of Desdemona, and the other of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be." Both records take exactly four and a half minutes to play. They were, however, very faint and obscured by much extra noise to such an extent that Mr. Grossman, despaired of ever having them transferred to modern phonograph discs...
...glance at Paul Dietz' life will show his wide experience. Born in Weimar, his theatrical inclinations early lead him to the State Theatres of Lubeck and Bremen, and eventually to the Court Theatre in Gotha, where his record includes distinguished auditions in "Faust," "Othello," and "Wilhelm Tell...
...Sever 23 Professor Cross will speak on "Sentimentalism in Russian Literature". And please be reminded that there's a splendid exhibition of early and modern American glass work at the Fogg Museum. At 10 o'clock Professor Kittredge will continue his lectures on Othello in Harvard 6. Don't forget Katharine Cornell is in town in an excellent presentation of Romeo and Juliet. Then again there's the Rodco at the Garden; then again there's Three Men on a Horse at the Plymouth...
...Merivale's Othello is somewhat less violent, a little more gentlemanly, than Mr. Huston's. For the most part he speaks his lines with precision and touches of old-school austerity, but bursts now and then into roars of epileptic passion which old-school critics deprecated as inarticulate. Desdemona is played with competent verve by Gladys Cooper, the Jane Cowl of Britain who first appeared in the U. S. last year in The Shining Hour. Kenneth MacKenna provides a jaunty lago who obviously relishes discussing his skulduggery with himself and his audience...