Word: othellos
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...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...
...togas. His grave, bony face seems as incapable of timidity as it is of humor. He has beetling mobile brows and eyes whose whites can gleam with tragic fury in a sepia-colored face, as they did last week in Manhattan when Crosby Gaige opened his production of Othello, with Mr. Merivale playing the stout-hearted Moor whom jealousy made...
This is the first of eight Shakespeare plays docketed on Broadway for this season, including Producer Gaige's Macbeth which follows Othello, Leslie Howard in Hamlet, the Lunts in The Taming of the Shrew,* Katharine Cornell again in Romeo & Juliet. Such able actors and their enterprising producers are currently creating something of a Shakespeare revival and proving that senescence is no proper criterion of ability to interpret the Bard that his plays are not only fine literature which can be declaimed with distinction but meaty melodramas which can be acted with vitality. Miss Cornell's glowing performance last...
...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...
Football has brought out an exceptionally large number of candidates this fall. Other factors which have contributed to the pre-college sociability of Cambridge streets are the Bible and Shakespeare exams which have also favorably affected the gate receipts of "Macbeth" and "Othello" in Boston this week, the early issues of the various publications, and the necessity of changing schedules, rooming quarters and so forth...