Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible not to feel that this interpretation, though far more appealing than its antithesis, loses something important to the play. Hamlet's intellectual nature, or, as Coleridge has it, his habit of "calculating consideration which attempts to exhaust all the relations and possible consequences of a deed," is, after all, fundamental to the plot. In Mr. Evans, this side of Hamlet is not absent, it is merely submerged; but it has so become indefinite that one is actually not convinced when he says "Oh cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!" Neither can one answer...
...excellent in his humorous indifference to his father's preaching, but none the less convincing in his pursuit of revenge--Polonius is at once sage and verbose. To Ophelia (Katherine Locke),--who is appropriately fragile, and who contributes a mad scene (IV-V) as effective as any in the play--the Lord Chamberlain is exasperatingly hasty and foolish. Humor, too, enters into Mr. Graham's skillful portrayal, especially when the utmost is wrung from his interview (II-II) with the smooth, villainous King (Henry Edwards) and the sensual, light-witted Queen (Mady Christians). Only from the ghost, who--in spite...
George Bernard Shaw is one of the few men who is just as good as he thinks he is. For although "Candida" is a play of cosier and snugger England, safe from air raids and the Red menace, there is nothing cost or snug or dated about the bearded Fabian's timeless masterpiece. Nor is there anything dated about Cornelia Otis Skinner who looks almost too young for thirty year old Candida...
...framed. Smart, gossipy, wisecracking, full of family jokes about fashionable Philadelphia and other Biddle-dee-dee, the nearest The Philadelphia Story comes to tragedy is the paralytic stroke suffered by the plot at the end of the second act. Though not up to Barry's best trifling, the play provides an entertaining evening, thanks to gay, lively dialogue and Actress Hepburn's amazing aptness for her role...
Activities in the House are fairly varied and well participated in since most of them are the direct result of suggestions from House members. They include a bridge club which sponsors a tournament, a ping-pong tournament, informal victroia dances, a photographic exhibit, and an original play...