Word: poloniuses
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...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...
...something new and unusual. Perhaps it is to him; perhaps the students of Richmond College did not doze over their Shakspere in his days. And even now the throught of Brutus on Broadway is somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm spring evening fully appreciated. In fact, any time during April or May the Bard might with justice quote himself, with a slight change of wording: "How many thousand of my poorest readers are at this hour asleep...
...voice that suggest more than a little of the charm which bound Hamlet to him. So small a part as the First Player was made memorable by Mr. Collamores delivery of Aeneas' tale to Dido, and his ability subtly to distinguish the interwoven parts he played. As for Polonius, though his part was considerably shortened it still gave Mr. Peters opportunity to present the Lord Chamberlain as Shakepere conceived him--an aged but still efficient courtier and diplomat, ready with counsel and device, but kindly humoring the vagrant fancy of the young prince--not the doddering burlesque of age with...
...shows Mr. Hampden and his whole company at their best. The few weak points of the presentation, as it was in the spring, have been polished up carefully; new players are taking some of the minor parts and brightening them, and Mr. Hampden himself has improved with further practice. Polonius and the Queen need improving, and Miss Morgan as Ophelia does not get all that she might form her part, at which she is new. With further experience, however, she should develop into an extremely capable Shakespearean actress. Le Roi Operti as Osrle, although playing a very small part, deserves...