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There he stayed. Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst became a Washington character. Tall, with the suave manner of a Shakespearean actor, he gave up his cowboy clothes for sleek, striped trousers, spade-tailed coat, pince-nez on a wide black ribbon. His speeches were orations, models of polysyllabic splendor. He described himself as a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano in behalf of the principles of my party." But meatily between the thick-hunked verbiage were sandwiched slices of wit and wisdom. He was one man who dared to tackle rough-&-tumble Huey Long in debate on the Senate floor. He left...
...Yunnan recently, I asked a Chinese what he thought of things generally in the world. Being a businessman rather than a scholar or an official and having come from South China he replied in pidgin English "Belly bad. Can do, no can do, what fashion?" which translated into good Shakespearean English reads "Very bad. To be or not to be. That is the question." In Hong Kong, I asked a Chinese what the Chinese thought of the Japanese. He replied "Chinaman think Japanman no got proper savvy box." I notice the American public has been indulging freely in Confucian sayings...
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...