Word: shaksperean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repertory theatre is essential if the finest things in the drama are to live," said Mr. Walter Hampden, when interviewed recently by a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Hampden, a Harvard man in the Class of 1900, is without doubt the most widely known Shaksperean actor in the world today...
...Shaksperean actors in the past, men like Booth, have set an almost impossibly high standard for the actors of today. The natural tendency is for people to criticize performances of Shakspere in terms of performances of the same play that they have seen before, and they are usually able to find things not to their liking. On the other hand, there have been no standards set for the "popular" plays and musical comedies, and the people who go to presentations of Shakspere with critical minds, go to the others in search of nothing more than an evening of casual pleasure...