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...Fountain Ashurst has represented Arizona in the U. S. Senate since that territory became a State in 1912. His tall sleek figure, his shiny black hair, his resounding rhetoric, his theatrical by-play with black-corded glasses have caused many an ignorant observer to mistake him for a onetime Shakespearean actor. His secret hope is to win future fame as a great diarist of the current era. Today he is the senior Senator from the Southwest...
...semipolitical (Republican) organization with some social pretensions, pays its respects to Art with an exhibition to which members may bring their wives and daughters. Advertised as chef d'oeuvre of last week's exhibition was the lifesize, specifically nude bronzed plaster cast of Paul Robeson, Negro baritone, Shakespearean actor, onetime Rutgers football star, which Sculptor Antonio Salemme sent last summer to Philadelphia, which it shocked (TIME, June 30). For most of the summer it has been on view at the Brooklyn Museum...
...Cambridge, will direct the play. Mrs. Davidson has been prominently identified with the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club and with the Radcliffe Idler Society, for whom she directed "The Swan," and "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney." Previous to her residence in Cambridge, she acted with Sothern and Marlowe in Shakespearean repertoire, and subsequently appeared in the Stagers' New York revival of W.S. Gilbert's comedy, "Engaged." She has also appeared in Belasco productions in support of Frances Starr, and played for a season opposite Lionel Barrymore in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and later...
Greet and his players gave "Everyman" in the Sanders Theatre in 1903 and a series of open sir Shakespearean performances on one of the University lawns in 1904. This year he has been touring the United States with his company and last spring played the first quarto of "Hamlet" in San Francisco before an enthusiastic audience...
...brand new snow for the U. S." Also Fred Allen wondering if he whistled in his sleep: "When I woke up this morning there were four dogs in bed with me." Twelfth Night. Perhaps because the works of William Shakespeare are reputed ageless, most recent Shakespearean productions have been rigged out with modernistic settings, actors in mufti, sundry sensationalisms. In tune with her time, Jane Cowl has for her stage settings a huge book of Shakespeare which is unfolded to make various scenes. Her performance as Viola is lively, her grace and beauty are used to good effect. But Leon...