Word: othello
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...Othello. Walter Hampden is one of the most serious laborers for the better things of the Theatre. He is one of the few curators of the old things that are best. Therefore, when he brings back Othello, the honesty of his effort, the stimulation that such a play must give our stage is to be commended without stint. Granting, however, the sincerity and ambition of the effort, it must be said that Othello is in many places dull...
...hours and 30 minutes of the watcher's time. The play is simply not sufficiently invigorating to sustain the stubborn interest of the casual attendant. In the second place, the interpretation of Mr. Hampden, scholarly and earnest as it is, seems somehow to fail the Moor. He plays Othello resonantly and with determination. Always he plays it; never does he bring the suffering soldier to life. Furthermore, the Desdemona of Jeannette Sherwin is distinctly under standard. Iago (Baliol Holloway, Englishman) gives a curiously individual, irritating and yet undeniably admirable performance...
...people to whom any Shakespeare presentation is an educational essential, the production will be enormously worth while. To the rank and file who crowded so enthusiastically to Mr. Hampden's Cyrano de Bergerac, it is doubtful if Othello will abundantly appeal...
Stark Young-"Admirable part of this Othello was the spirit . . . everywhere evident a long study and a great ideal for the Theatre...
...priest is infatuated with the virtuous heroine, a reputable and happily married woman. He contrives to make his unholy advances through a pandar, but is on every occasion sternly repulsed. The lady's husband is jealous. One night he finds a masculine slipper, not his own, in her room. Othello-like, he rashly accuses her of infidelity. To give adequate evidence of her honor, she throws herself into the river, but is fished out and hauled aboard a passing barge. It belongs to none other than the Emperor himself, on a joy ride with the Empress. The heroine tells...