Word: shakespeareans
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...Midsummer Night's Dream (by William Shakespeare) remains, even for the world's most famed producers of Shakespeare, something of a problem child. The Old Vic's version is neither Shakespearean in essence nor artistic as a whole. But on its own terms there is something to be said for a good deal of it-to be said, at moments, with even such words as "lovely" and "fairylike...
...Chicago Gossip Columnist Irving ("Kup") Kupcinet confided in the Sun-Times that Mrs. Stevenson planned "a European style cafe [with] a combination of theatre and nite-club performances." The neighborhood exploded. In vain did Mrs. Stevenson and friends explain that the basement club would be private, the garden performances Shakespearean and very high-toned. "I could sue some people, including some newspapers," cried Mrs. Stevenson, "but I shan...
...Booth is well cast as a trouper who also runs a theatrical boarding house; and it is too bad that the raffish life of show folk is not oftener blended with the razzle-dazzle of the Midway. Instead, the uninspired libretto ordains that Lottie shall fall for a divorced Shakespearean actor with a troubled and troublesome daughter, and that their romance shall not only run on & on, but eventually trudge and finally creep...
...plot is pleasant enough: something about a vaudeville singer in love with a Shakespearean actor in Coney Island at the turn of the century. Though Wilbur Evans as the actor does not always articulate clearly during the songs, he is genial and right for the part...
...London, Sir John Gielgud, 49, who was knighted last June in recognition of his superb Shakespearean acting, was fined $28 for "persistently importuning male persons for immoral purposes...