Word: shylock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merchant of Venice. Clad in a breath-taking scarlet robe, Miss Ethel Barrymore appeared to Mr. Walter Hampden's Shylock a creation of the role of Portia which flamed like the attack of a young and flighty tanager upon an old and steady-going raven. Mr. Hampden's performance was straightforward, stately and without elocutionary claptrap. Miss Barrymore seemed unusually nervous and selfconscious, but swept the audience off its feet with a blazing scintillant triumph in the trial scene...
Indignation if not consuming wrath was in the voice of the Belgian press as M. Theunis, Ambassador Baron Cartier de Marchienne, Felician Cattier and Emile Francqui departed for the U.S. three weeks ago. "Shylock," "the soul of Shylock" people muttered in the streets of Brussels, and; press set down the opprobrious words in black and white. The contemptuous words were not spoken of any of the departing gentlemen, all honored as able statesmen or financiers in their country sneering epithet was applied to an intangible person, that daddy-long-legs of symbolical figures, Uncle...
Last week the four distinguished Belgians announced that they were ready to sail for home Said Le Soir: "Those who attributed the soul of Shylock to our American friends were bad prophets...
Recently, the editors of The Lampoon (humorous publication at Harvard University) printed a picture of a temple with a label: "Temple of Business." They inscribed upon a prominent portion of its architecture the names Ponzi, Arnstein, Shylock, Doheny...
...apology to Doheny in the issue of the Lampoon out today would seem to show that even Lampy--the champion of the liberal arts--still has an eye to business. It seems that in the recent Business number of the Lampoon Doheny's name was linked with those of Shylock and Ponzi. Lampy, ever shrewd, evidently felt it worth while to apologize only to Mr. Doheny, remembering that Ponzi is at present a guest of the state and that Shylock never existed. Mr. Doheny, unaccustomed as he is to public notice, is expected to appreciate Lampy's expression of "regret...