Word: shakespeareanly
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...dressed in a long-coated black suit, a boiled white shirt fastened with gold studs, a black bow tie, and mirror-shiny black boots. As he pushed his way through a swarm of newshawks and photographers Tom Connally of Texas, whose appearance reminds some of an oldtime Shakespearean actor, cried out sonorously: "Make way for liberty...
...peep shows of 1896 was the prolonged kiss which May Irwin and John C. Rice translated from their stage hit, The Widow Jones. Clergymen shudderingly described the film as "a lyric of the stockyards." Now the clinch is to cinema what the final couplet is to the Shakespearean sonnet...
...play is one of Saroyan's simplest, even though the third act centers around a live man in a casket. Saroyan is going classic: he introduces clowns in the Elizabethan manner and their lines are downright Shakespearean, especially in their tortuous humor. He also uses the device, familiar to students of early drama, of punning in the choice of names for his characters. The true Saroyan touch appears here in the simple revelation that the five characters named Hughman (five Josephs, one Mary, one Ernest, and one August) are not related. In fact, none of them even knew...
...times had first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business at its showiest. Under full steam, Ted Lewis embodies the Shakespearean ham, the minstrel strutter, the carnival drum major, the medicine barker, the vaudeville tearjerker, the circus buffoon, the ragtime sport-all among the most fondly regarded figures in U.S. life...
...Welty is not writing stories. She is using words to create works of art which lie somewhere between lyric poetry, painting, the still untouchable possibilities of color photography, and dancing. A young Negro dandy in a zoot suit becomes, in Miss Welty's perception, an image of almost Shakespearean loveliness...