Word: shylock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Arliss with subdued strength plays Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" this week at the Plymouth. He has throttled down the weeping and wildly gesticulating Shylocks to his own restrained taste. Moderation is born of the knowledge that orating Shylocks have long lain in the alley, that age's resignation to evil is in Shylock's limbs, and that this play is leaving the category of the one-part show. When Lorenzo has flown with Jessica and the old man knocks at the door of his house, there is no crescendo from wonder to premonition to fear to sorrow...
...John Phillips Kemble collection there appears the playbill for the first: appearance of Kemble at Drury Lane Theatre as Hamlet in 1783, and the later debut of Edmund Kean as Shylock in the same theatre...
...logical. Some few Mexicans and Nicaraguans, not impressed by the brotherly attitude of their northern fellow-Americans, employ "Gringo" and "pig" in referring to them, but both of these fall short of being satisfactory. A New Englander suggests "Yankee", but Southerners consider this an insult. The vogue of "Uncle Shylock" abroad has been almost as short-lived as that of "Saviors of Democracy". The whole search for a satisfactory term ends in a vicious circle, with no solution...
...intended to allay the fear of the French that the United States might attempt elsewhere the militant methods of debt collection that she has found so successful in South America. Lately the French cartoonists have been making pointed pictorial insinuations about the inexplicably large navy which their star-spangled Shylock is providing. In the light of this fear, it was unfortunate, perhaps typically so, that Secretary Kellogg, on the day before the signing, should propose another treaty, this time to abolish submarines, which happen to be the basis of the French navy...
...season by the more earnest theatre followers. Save the irreverent and eminently amusing Taming of the Shrew in modern clothes there has been no long run of the Bard's shows. Therefore, George Arliss was strategically situated to seize serious theatregoers by the ears and drag them toward his Shylock. He may still do so. No one can plot the perversities of theatregoers. Yet it was the feeling of many authorities that his Shylock was indifferent...