Word: shylock
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Over at the Exchequer, Chancellor Chamberlain, as sympathetic civil servants readily explain, has been unable for some years to receive "distinguished Americans" because he is a plain, blunt Birminghamer who would have to tell the Yankees to their faces what he thinks of debt-minded "Uncle Shylock" (see col. 2). With all this in mind, the Prime Minister and U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham were guests at a House of Commons dinner tendered them last week by a group of M. P.'s pledged "to make contacts with Americans interested in affairs and visiting this country...
Merchant of Venice: ". . .The character of Shylock fascinates critics and has lured them into endless mazes of debate. One thing is clear, however: "The Merchant of Venice" is no anti-Semitic document; Shakespeare was not attacking the Jewish people when he gave Shylock the villain's role. If so, he was attaching the Moors in "Titus Andronicus", the Spaniards in "Much Ado", the Italians in "Cymbeline", the Viennese in "Measure for Measure", the Danes in "Hamlet", the Britons in "King Lear", the Scots in "Macbeth", and the English in "Richard the Third...
...Show Is On" is glorified vaudeville: glorified to such an extent that at the very beginning it receives the verbal sanction of one William Shakespeare who assures us that the entire production is under his personal supervision. Before very long Shylock, bursting in upon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is required to account for his presence in "Hamlet". Later there is depicted a feud in the best Montague-Capulet fashion, between John Gielgud and Leslie Howard, each of whom gives Beatrile Lillie a front seat ticket for the other's performance, each knowing that the performance will prove only a minor side...
...church," runs the clerical proverb, "means a dead parson." No fragile parson is J. Duncan Spaeth, who, at 67, has a voice so thundering that it routs other professors from adjoining classrooms when Dr. Spaeth chooses to pull out his vocal stops, impersonate Shylock or Othello in the grand manner. Last October the trustees of three-year-old University of Kansas City reached him by long-distance telephone, reminded him that his age would automatically retire him from Princeton soon, coaxed him to become their University's first president (TIME, Oct. 14). J. Duncan Spaeth roared, spluttered, accepted...
...Shylock ever existed in the flesh, he might have known Disraeli's family, for they too were once merchants of Venice. Disraeli's grandfather was the first of his tribe to settle in England, where he belonged to London's congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Disraeli's father, who withdrew from the Jewish Church, had plenty of money, a respectable position in the literary world; his brilliant, handsome son, Benjamin, was under no compulsion to work for his living. But young Ben was consumed with ambition; he panted for Fame...