Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Viola Allen, 78, turn-of-the-century stage favorite; in Manhattan. She made a hit in Shakespeare in the '80s, eventually played in almost everything, was a Charles Frohman stock company star and leading lady to Joseph Jefferson, retired in 1918 at the height of her popularity...
There was also high praise for 19-year-old Jean Simmons' Ophelia. Wrote the New Statesman's thoughtful William Whitebait: "Ophelia comes out with a clarity I have never before known on the stage or, for that matter, the text . . . Miss Simmons' mad scenes (she acts them very simply; her beauty does the rest) are the most affecting I have known; in fact, this is the first time, in my experience, that the shock of Ophelia gone mad has moved and not embarrassed...
...hours, eliminated such roles as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, transposed speeches or even whole scenes as he found necessary. He called the result an "essay on Hamlet" The Manchester Guardian called it "a film which is much more closely knit and, indeed, much more dramatic than any stage Hamlet...
Five minutes into the second chukker, the rains came. A verliable cloudburst, which at one stage made the goalies invisible from the middle of the field, transformed the ground into a quagmire. But lacrosse games don't stop unless either one team is collectively struck by a lightening belt or something equally drastic occurs, so the contest continued despite the downpour...
Martyn Green, as always, was the idol of the galleries, who furiously recalled him for five (5) encores at one point in the proceedings. As the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter (K.C.B.), Green seemed to strike sort of a midway position between his clowning and mugging and magnificently individual stage business of "The Mikado" and the austere simplicity of "Pirates." Part of the time he was the scene-stealing comic; part of the time he was the ramrod-stiff First Lord of the Admiralty...