Word: polonius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bear no grudge; her attitude is that of a best friend and severest critic. Obviously she is a close friend of Montgomery Higginson, the leading figure of that distinguished coterie of literati which counts among its number such important names a Essenz von Bierschaum, Jan Rotterdam, and Major Polonius Pringle. In such company as this, Lowella should be safe even at the Lamb's Club...
...role as to throw the other characters unreasonably into the background. On the contrary his supporting cast contributes greatly to the excellence of his own interpretation of Hamlet, Louis Leon Hall and Irby Marshall as the king and queen being particularly satisfactory. Philip Quin in the part of Polonius somehow tails, in the opinion of the reviewer, to give an altogether persuasive representation, but, inasmuch as the true character of the Lord Chamberlain is largely a matter for opinion. Mr. Quin's playing of it is also a matter for personal prejudice. In portraying Polonius almost too capably...
These show the variations in text in each edition. Also are the presentation copies from Fitzgerald; "Euphranor," "Polonius", and "Six Dramas of Calderon...
...character of Polonius is the single major change in the current production. Moffat Johnston carried the staff laid aside by John O'Brien who committed suicide last Summer...
Justice John Ford of the Supreme Court of New York, like Polonius, had a daughter. One day, so the story goes, he caught her reading D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love. It is a very long novel, an erudite and obscure novel, and some critics say - among them H. L. Mencken - a very dull novel. But unquestionably it has some erotic passages which are intelligible to the sophisticated intelligentsia, Whether they were understood by his daughter or not Justice Ford did not say; whether her mind was corrupted by them he did not try to ascertain. But Justice...