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...program's 765th week on the air. The first show, on May 26, 1940, began with the U.S. Constitution. Since then, on Sundays from 11:30 to noon, about 550 conversationalists have appeared on the program to discuss more than 750 books. Among them: Historian Arnold Toynbee, Shakespearean Producer Margaret Webster, Socialist
Does Welles-playing Othello, of course-stride on screen to erupt a Shakespearean torrent? Depend on it, the camera will be angled upward from the floor so that Welles looms at least ten feet high while the other actors seem scarcely more than midgets...
...mutilated ending, the picture is handled with adequate feeling, and its vividly exciting pictorial beauty, Miss Shentall's performance, and the competent if not outstanding handling of the secondary parts, do continuing justice to the play. Without claim to greatness, the picture should win a position among the outstanding Shakespearean film adaptations to date...
Through the Uppercrust. Even before she ran away from home with a troupe of traveling Shakespearean players, Elsa met (through her father's theatrical friends) the great Caruso and a couple of Jacks: London and Barrymore. She traveled to Europe and Africa as the piano accompanist of a vaudeville singer, and soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P...
...dancing far surpasses any actor's speech; the ass's head that Bottom wears is more entertaining than Stanley Holloway's Bottom. Only Robert Helpmann as Oberon can render Shakespeare's diction as well as dance, can become something fleet, mischievous, magical-and believably Shakespearean...