Word: rosencrantzes
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Some of the critics objected that Olivier had been too cavalier with the text. He had cut the 4½-hour play to 2½ hours, eliminated such roles as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, transposed speeches or even whole scenes as he found necessary. He called the result an "essay on Hamlet" The Manchester Guardian called it "a film which is much more closely knit and, indeed, much more dramatic than any stage Hamlet...
John Simon '46, Polonius; Edward Franklin '47, Laertes; Miss June Philbin, Radcliffe '46, Ophelia; Miss Anna Prince, Radcliffe '47, Gertrude; Charles Van Doren '46, Rosencrantz; Alexander Stewart '46 Gildenstern; Edward Benedict '46, Horatio; Michael Kahn '46, Osrich, and William Murray '47, Voltimand. The cast will double-up on minor roles. The performance will be open to the public, and is expected to run almost three hours...
...however, cannot escape the inexperienced troupe's inevitable handicap of poor playing in the walk-on parts and even in several of the principals. Guards and messengers border on the amateurish, and Helen Stone's portrayal of Queen Gertrude adds nothing to the play but disappointment. A badly-spoken Rosencrantz also serves to brand the performance as experimental and Bostonian...
...Show Is On" is glorified vaudeville: glorified to such an extent that at the very beginning it receives the verbal sanction of one William Shakespeare who assures us that the entire production is under his personal supervision. Before very long Shylock, bursting in upon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is required to account for his presence in "Hamlet". Later there is depicted a feud in the best Montague-Capulet fashion, between John Gielgud and Leslie Howard, each of whom gives Beatrile Lillie a front seat ticket for the other's performance, each knowing that the performance will prove only a minor side...
...difficult to dissociate as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, liver & bacon or the Cherry Sisters are Pianists Guy Maier and Lee Pattison. For twelve years Pianists Maier & Pattison have given two-piano recitals the length and breadth of the U. S.. in Europe, Australia, New Zealand. Their success has inspired other two-piano teams. Two-piano literature has increased because of them: Composers Leo Sowerby, John Alden Carpenter, Edward Burlingame Hill and Leopold Godowsky have written music for them. But the two-piano repertory is limited at best and because they feel that they have pretty well exhausted it, because they...