Word: poloniuses
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...central figure, a dear old Colonel, whom we see writing his reminiscences of the war and smoking among his roses, must have been a real colonel whom its author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing as the power of love, and with such effect that "It's all over" between the friend and his affianced. The "Power," embodied in none other than the woman aforesaid, turns...
Claudius, King of Denmarke,Ian Robertson Hamlet, son to the late, nephew to the present King, Forbes Robertson Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, West Drayton Polonius, Lord Chamberlaine, Guy Lane Horatio, friend to Hamlet, Arthur Harrold Laertes, son to Polinius, Leon Quartermaine Rosincrance, Courtier, N. Howard Guildensterne, Courtier, F. Bickley Osricke, Courtier, H. Beaumont A Priest, Morton Bennett Marcellus, Officer, J. R. Ryan Bernardo, Officer, Leonard Howe Francisco, a soldier, C. Kinnaird Reynolds, servant to Polnius, S. Macdonald First Player, James J. Ryan Second Player, S. T. Pearce First Grave-digger, Ernest Cosham Second Grave-digger, S. Thompson Ghost of Hamlet...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will read, from Booth's Promptbook of "Hamlet," scenes between Hamlet and the Ghost, Hamlet and Ophelia, Hamlet and Polonius and Hamlet and the Gravedigger. The reading will be open only to members of the University...
...Booth's interpretation of the part of Hamlet, the points where you value the picture of the character most are first; in the scene where he follows the ghost from the stage, holding the hilt of his sword in front of him; and again where, having stabbed Polonius, he turns to the Queen demanding "Is it the King?" Mr. Irving presents varying and sometimes. grotesque attitudes one after another, and the highest pictorial effect by M. Mounet Sully is the fluttering exit after the "Words, words, words," speech to Polonius...
...whether they have to make or keep fortunes, their individualities must be pitted against those of others; and in the struggle of individualities a knowledge of one's own, with its strength and weakness, is of the first importance. There were never wiser words spoken than those of old Polonius; "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." But how can a man be true to himself, if he does not know himself; and how can he know himself if he mistrusts...