Word: shakespeareans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This production transcends the usual run of Shakespearean presentations in taste, beauty and imagination. Many of the misgivings one is likely to have in advance about a production like this--misgivings based on the star system and certain excesses or limitations of style in contemporary productions of Shakespeare--are unconfirmed...
Word leaked out that Charlie Chaplin planned the vicarious fulfillment of a lifelong ambition to play a Shakespearean role: he will direct his son Sydney, 24, in a Hollywood stage production of Othello in August...
...intelligence with the air of someone who has been acquainted with radio and television for a long time. A lampoon of this industry has been a long-time. A lampoon of this industry has been a long-time in coming but director Richard Whorf, known to some as a Shakespearean actor, has allowed the direction to get out of hand. There are too many irrelevancies and not enough of the quip situations in which Mr. Colman can handle himself best. The picture should have run an hour and it ran for two hours and 18 minutes...
Died. Julia Arthur, 80, Canada-born Shakespearean actress of the 1890s, widow of multimillionaire Yachtsman-Financier Benjamin P. Cheney (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad); in Boston...
Jussi is looking forward to getting a few hints on histrionics before he sings on opening night at the Met next November. His assignment: the title role in Verdi's Don Carlos, with Broadway Shakespearean Director Margaret Webster doing the directing and giving Jussi the hints...