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...scenes, full of bawling, bibulation, and bawdry, appear to have been written as noisy relief from the prevailing mood of quiet delicacy. But this mood is enunciated with such graceful strength in the set, that although Mr. Benthall puts his actors through all the burps and stumbles common in Shakespearean slapstick (or at least allows them a free hand in this respect), they never seem coarse or even very vigorous. The basis of the comic subplot is the duping of Malvolio, the puritanical steward, by a group of cheerful tosspots--a little joke which has occasionally struck critics as cruel...
Richard S. Emrich '60 will produce and William H. FitzHugh '60 will direct the first Shakespearean play to be performed in Adams House for several years...
Tireless Name-Dropper Elsa Maxwell, reporting for the Hearstpapers her latest encounters with the well-known, recorded some brief banter with a sly curmudgeon of old. "I once asked Bernard Shaw which was his favorite Shakespearean comedy," wrote Elsa, "and he replied. 'Othello.' 'But Othello is not a comedy,' I told him. 'It's a tragedy.' Mr. Shaw quipped, 'Any play whose plot hangs on a lady's handkerchief must be a comedy...
...John Gielgud, famed Shakespearean actor, was guest of honor yesterday at the first of the Eliot luncheons. More than 20 Seniors interested in literature and drama attended...
Moneymaking enterprises are not necessarily to be scorned, especially when they involve one of the two or three greatest Shakespearean actors of the day. But I think Ages of Man would draw a mixed verdict whatever its origins. Any such jumble must inevitably be at once too much and too little...