Word: shakespeareanisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Maurice (rhymes with Horace) Evans returned to Broadway this month in Richard II, critics reiterated what theatregoers did not need to be told: that here was the outstanding Shakespearean actor of the day. In the three years since he had first electrified Broadway as Richard Evans had crossed and recrossed the U. S. like a moving torch, playing Shakespeare (usually to packed houses) some 700 times. Such a three-year record the U. S. has rarely seen...
...Scientist and Shakespeare devotee, Harley Lyman Clarke. Crueler than death has been the fate of ex-tycoon Clarke: by 1938 his own lawyer officially admitted he was too poor to be sued. Unlike Hopson (who built up good operating utilities on the theory that fat cows give richest milk) Shakespearean Clarke bought and overcapitalized nearly everything...
...Album of Shakespearean Song (Mordecai Bauman, baritone, Ernst Victor Wolff, harpsichordist; Columbia: 6 sides). Rather lugubriously sung anthology of Shakespeare ditties, most of whose settings (by Thomas Arne) were written in Georgian times, but some of which (It was a Lover and His Lass by Thomas Morley) may actually have been sung in Shakespeare's own productions...
...stand his rehearsing amateur parts at home. The Journal could not stand the retractions and libel suits its imaginative new hand kept getting his paper into. Later other papers felt the same way. So young Tom switched to vaudeville. Then he landed a job with Ben Greet's Shakespearean players, followed by two years of carrying Shakespeare to U. S. college campuses in the company of Charles Coburn. By 1920, Mitchell had played some 55 Shakespearean roles, has played none since...
...also has (for the first time in movies) veteran Actor Walter Hampden as the archdeacon of Victor Hugo's novel, now called the archbishop for the greater glory of the cinema. Walter Hampden, who heretofore has been suspected of scorning movies as beneath the dignity of U. S. Shakespearean Actor No. 1, made the great concession and this picture...