Word: othellos
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...Dramatically, I like 'Othello', because it moves on continually, never stops, the plot never changes and there are no side plots. One of the world's finest scenes is the jealousy scene, from point of view of dramatic construction. It's the most interesting, I've ever played." Thus enthusiastically spoke Walter Huston, veteran actor, and star of last season's hit, "Dodsworth...
...film versions of Shakespear, Mr. Huston has liked them all, especially "Rome and Juliet." He hands plaudits galore to Norma Shearer for her performance. He might film "Othello", if there is a public reaction for it. This play is adaptable for the screen, and many of the wars and battles alluded to could actually be shown. It "Othello", is well received, he plans to go ahead with "King Lear", the "Tempest" or "Macbeth...
...dramatically to be, which is completely destructive of his own personality. Walter Huston has not, as some lesser man might do, keyed himself up to the heights of affected stiffness, in order to play Shakespeare. In the opening scenes he is the reserved, resolute soldier, quietly affable, that Othello is meant to be. As Iago progresses in his corrosive work, Othello is made by the master actor, through the episodes of the fictitious night in the camp and the handkerchief show and so forth, imperceptibly to advance his jealous disintegration, until at the end he is raving so furiously that...
...acts is a necessary expedient. But there is also an annoying amount of expurgation of certain crudities which it might be thought that over three centuries had succeeded in mellowing. And in the crucial scene where Cassio is forced by the craft of Iago to convict himself before Othello in a completely misleading way, the clinching evidence of the handkerchief is in this performance somehow strangely omitted...
...fought the aristocrats of Boston when their selfish claims ran counter to the national welfare, was one of the greatest of living statesmen who was content to be known as one of the most modest poets the country had produced. An actor's letter asking his advice on Othello gave him more pleasure than all his political honors. And Harvard was educating such youngsters as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Oliver Holmes, John Motley, Francis Parkman, Richard Henry Dana...