Word: sunderland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good as one is accustomed to fine under a master. Robert Keith is in general quite satisfactory as Iago, although his appearance is more suggestive of a mischievous schoolboy than of a malignant traitor, and in spite of the somewhat excessive faces and eyes he makes. Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston) is as vivacious and as sweet as Desdemona should be, but she can't help looking a little mature. Euqal praise might be extended to Natalie Hall as Emilia and G. P. Huntley, Jr. as Cassio...
Also featured is Professor Dorchand's Declaratory Judgments," a review by Edson R. Sunderland of a book just completed by Prof. Dorchand on this subject...
...when Lillian Gish played Camille. Last summer an audience in 1890 costume watched The Merry Widow. For last week's performance Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones selected Othello, persuaded Walter Huston to take a six-week vacation from Dodsworth in Manhattan to appear as the Moor with Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston) as Desdemona...
...Central City's Opera House and its 750 hickory seats were redolent of the past, there was nothing antique last week about what happened on the stage. Walter Huston made Othello a modern hero, lively, admirable and forlorn. Nan Sunderland's Desdemona was a graceful and impulsive lady, much more exciting than the demure Desdemonas who were in vogue when Central City last saw Othello. Kenneth MacKenna, whose brother. Scene Designer Jo Mielziner, was in the audience, made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled...
...Councilors of Sunderland, England, voted to withdraw a resolution they passed 15 years ago conferring the freedom of the city on Admiral of the British Fleet Earl Beatty. Reason: Because Earl Beatty of the North Sea had not once visited Sunderland to receive its freedom, he no longer deserved...