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...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...
Verdi: Otello (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Wilfred Pelletier conducting, with Lawrence Tibbett. Giovanni Martinelli, Helen Jepson and other artists; Victor: 12 sides). A much abridged edition of Verdi's great Shakespearean opera, so well recorded that you can almost hear the dust blowing off Tenor Martinelli's aging vocal chords...
...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...
...that it conquers the limitations of stage and life, ranges wherever man's imagination takes him, unrestrained by time or space or experience. Nobody in the movie business ever realized cinema's possibilities more completely than elusive, gay, acrobatic Douglas Fairbanks, son of a Denver lawyer and Shakespearean expert...
...approached the door stealthily, stalking his prey. Coming nearer, he distinctly heard the great cadences and denouements of the speech of a great Shakespearean actor. The little man was doing great things with the famous soliloquy from "Hamlet." Vag has no idea why he did it, but he found himself knocking on the door. As he recalls it, he was going to ask if this were where someone named Smith lived. Now there was not a sound. The voice had halted abruptly with "...When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?". Vag tapped again--still no sound...