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...figurines, the lovers absurd, and even the well-photographed scenes, such as the Paris mob singing the "Marseillaise," the carpenters working on the scaffold, the march to the palace, the fight with the palace guards, are spoiled by bad detail. The carpenters, for instance, have the enunciation of experienced Shakespearean actors. The marching mob, supposed to be recruited from the slums, all have the same kind of torches, as though their supplies for the attack on the palace had been issued by a circus property-room. Silliest shot: John Boles getting Laura La Plante out of the dungeon...
...White gift to Harvard consisted mainly of Shakespearean quartos, of which Mr. White had a very fine collection. The greatest collections of Shakespearean quartos are in English libraries, such as the British Museum. Even in this country, however, Harvard does not hold first place. The best authority in this field is the book compiled by Bartlett and Pollard, "A Census of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto." This census of quartos, published by the Elizabethan Club at Yale, again indicates the superiority of the H. C. Folger collection. Out of a total of 886 quartos described in detail, Mr. Folger owns...
Fritz Leiber and the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society. There are two schools of thought about Shakespearean productions. One holds that unless their splendors approach perfection, it is better to stay home and read the plays. The other insists that the great Shakespearean characters were meant to be seen and heard, that anyone who resists their appearance in the flesh, even though that flesh be pocked with imperfections, can be no true fancier of the drama...
Because Edward Hugh Sothern, 70-year-old Shakespearean trouper, refused to be interviewed by reporters from the Amarillo, Tex., News-Globe, editor Gene Howe, irascible critic of Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, June n, 1928, April i, 19-29) referred to Actor Sothern as a "pink-toed high-hatter." Advised the News-Globe: "Don't pay any of your good money to see him." From the stage, Actor Sothern announced that he was returning to the management the $500 he was to receive for the performance, saying: "My toes are not pink. This is the worst thing that...
Edward Hugh Sothern, oldtime Shakespearean trouper with his wife Julia Marlowe, spoke in Chicago about the U. S. stage. Said he: "Fifty years ago we led the world in stock companies of fine standards. Now we are in lewd and vulgar depths for the most part...