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Essentially, the film chronicles the triumph of British pluck over Levantine cunning. On one side are ranked wholesome Terence Morgan and his fellow painters (Derek Bond and Paul Rogers); on the other looms the hypnotic Svengali (oldtime Shakespearean Actor Donald Wolfit). who drifts about the screen in tattered clothes, rather like a grounded crow. In between is Hildegarde Neff, who makes Trilby, the Irish artist's model, exactly the "great, beautiful, stupid cow" of a woman that Du Maurier intended...
...Televiewers will be the first in the U.S. to see Sir Alexander Korda's lavish new movie, Richard III, starring Producer-Director Sir Laurence Olivier. NBC paid $500,000 for the right to one telecast (some time in January) of the $2,000,000 Shakespearean classic, thereby assuring the movie producers of one-quarter of their investment. Since the film's running time is 2 hours and 49 minutes, it will be, with intermissions for advertising, NBC's first three-hour Spectacular. NBC has also paid $250,000, or a quarter of the movie production cost...
...topflight interpreters of high romantic drama; of a stroke; in Hollywood. Hampden scored his first major critical success at 26 in England, as a substitute for Sir Henry Irving in Hamlet. His touring repertory company (formed in 1908) brought him fame as one of the most versatile Shakespearean actors of his day. He turned to character roles in the movies (All This and Heaven Too, Sabrina) and radio, but was unhappy about having to adapt his style to modern low-key scripts. "Continuation of this movement," he said, "can result only in the hobbling of dramatic...
Most plausible pretender to the throne of Shakespeare, on grounds of genius and style, is Marlowe. His claims have not been pressed, except in regard to Shakespeare's earliest work, for the reason that he died before most of Shakespeare's plays were written. Anti-Shakespearean students are prepared to believe almost anything, but none of them has ever suggested that Marlowe went on writing after he was dead. Heaven only knows why. Calvin Hoffman, a reporter, drama critic, Shakespearean scholar, is the first man to try to grasp this nettle firmly...
...orthodox Shakespearean will be moved by Author Hoffman to abandon his established belief-that Christopher Marlowe was the great pioneer who explored the unknown continent of Elizabethan drama, and that William Shakespeare, following after, bulldozed and occupied that realm with a power and majesty far beyond the strength of his doughty predecessor. Some of Author Hoffman's parallelisms are interesting contributions to Shakespearean scholarship. For the rest. The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" confirms but one thing-that profound snobbery is the main weakness of all anti-Shakespeareans. Deep-rooted in all Baconians, Oxonians, Marlovians, of every...