Word: shakespearianism
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...Avon. As chairman (since 1900) of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace and of the town's Shakespeare Memorial Theater (1900-46), Sir Archibald hoped to keep the theater pure and local ("Visiting stars? Over my dead body!"), surrendered to professionalism in 1946 when outside Shakespearian actors were brought in as guests...
...Theatre Collection here is now the largest in the country. Packard has acquired recordings of such noted performers as Julia Marlowe, great Shakespearian actress who died Sunday in New York, Edwin Booth, and Dame Ellen Terry. He plans to put many sermons on tape as well as speeches by well known men who appear at the University...
...oddest, features of the play is the part of Thersites, who, largely detached from the action, observes and comments on the events about him. He combines the functions of the Shakespearian "fool" with the chorus of a Greek drama, and his bitter words seem to be the theme of the play "still wars and lechery--nothing else holds fashion." Albert Marre has avoided the ranting style he used in the previous performance, and speaks with just about the proper degree of bitter cynicism...
...felt that the traditional scores for the play, composed by Henry Purcell and Thomas Augustan Arne, although musically above reproach, were more appropriate for an eighteenth century production of the Shakespearian tragicomedy...
Stand Together. Dean Acheson continued his lecture in a radio speech which was cleared with Harry Truman and delivered with a Shakespearian actor's measured resonance. The U.N., he said, is "not working as effectively as we hoped because one of its members has attempted to prevent it from working...