Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no reason to despise the pathetic as opposed to the terrible- Some of the most poignant moments in all drama have been tearful. One such is the last scene of the Cherry Orchard, as presented by the Moscow Players. But there is a definite line separating the Shakespearean and Greek tragedies from the modern tragedy of defeat...
...playwright for making a living by writing bedroom farces, if that be his ambitions, but there are many who object to hear the declaration that these are what they, a goodly part of the public, want. The American theatre-goer has had no real opportunity to choose between the Shakespearean drama and the modern farcical acrobatics. It is inaccurate to say that one thing is preferred to another unless both have been equally and fairly presented for choice. Unfortunately the public's taste is the result of the stuff with which it has been...
...coach, the Club has secured the services of Mr. Kendall Weston, a famous Shakespearean actor and now director of the Somerville Players. Mr. Weston played in former years with Edwin Booth and Lawrence Barrett...
...brightening them, and Mr. Hampden himself has improved with further practice. Polonius and the Queen need improving, and Miss Morgan as Ophelia does not get all that she might form her part, at which she is new. With further experience, however, she should develop into an extremely capable Shakespearean actress. Le Roi Operti as Osrle, although playing a very small part, deserves praise, as does Mr. Thomas as the First Grave-digger...
...excellently graduated. The men interpreted equally well the gentle philosophy of Praetorious, the resounding energy of Buck's "At Sea," Mendelssohn's smooth and flowing "Huntor's Farewell," and in Morley's enchanting "Now is the Month of Maying," following carefully the feeling of that light, delicate fragment of Shakespearean England, while into the final "Hallelujah, Amen," they put all the sonorous vigor for which Handel is famous...