Word: poloniuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Closing at week's end, the play mingled one or two thrills with an appalling number of frills, one or two philosophic truths with a succession of Polonius-like truisms, an occasional feeling for language with pretentious and barbarous misuse of it. A good cast of actors, including Claude Rains, Christopher Plummer and Wendell Corey, were unhappily squandered on a pudding of a script-part scientific jargon, part Mermaid Tavern verse, part Madison Avenue prose-that sounded like cosmic advertising copy...
Among the other principals, the most engaging are Edith Iselin, as Ophelia, and Richard Smithies, as Polonius. Miss Iselin plays Ophelia with a youthful lightness that is often quite charming in its novelty. If we don't usually think of Ophelia as a young girl, Miss Iselin shows that she can be. As for Smithies, he gives what is probably his best performance to date. His Polonius is restrained but generally pleasant. Due in large part to their work and that of Marc Brugnoni, in the role of the first grave-digger, the comicscenes are perhaps the most effective part...
Others chosen for major parts were Lisa Rosenfarb '57 as Gertrude, John Fenn '57 as Horatio, Robert Jordan '59 as Laertes, Richard Smities '57 as Polonius, and Edith Iselin '59 as Ophelia. Stephen Aaron '57 will direct the entire production...
...died in 1901. He did not start his training for kingship until his elder brother's death in 1892 made him heir apparent. But Queen Victoria kept a careful eye on him, supervised the planning of his education, his choice of a career (the Royal Navy), wrote him Polonius-like advice: "Beware of flatterers, too great love of amusement, of races & betting & playing high...
...soaring poetry. Sarah Churchill, in her first try at the role, made a surprisingly effective Ophelia, Joseph Schildkraut got pathos as well as villainy from the role of King Claudius, Ruth Chatterton was an adequate Queen Gertrude, Barry Jones bumbled happily and skillfully through his speeches as Polonius, and Wesley Addy brought objective understanding to the role of Horatio...