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Born in Copenhagen 54 years ago, Viggo Bird came to the U. S. at 18, graduated from M. I. T., and married on a $2,000-a-year income from Stone & Webster. Slowly his salary rose to $40,000, but debts rose faster. First his wife had a $1,500 operation. Then his son got tuberculosis and Viggo Bird borrowed $9,000 to finance a cure in Switzerland. Just before 1929 his brother lost $30,000 belonging to their mother. Viggo Bird assumed the debt...
...abnormal neurotic, but a young man, full of the zest for life, but ultra-sensitive to the shocks and disillusionments, caught in a particularly horrible and brutal set of circumstances." Thus the director of Maurice Evans' complete "Hamlet" has summarized her work; and thus, simply and directly, Miss Webster has expressed both the strength and the weakness of the justly celebrated production...
...been doing it for many, many years, so there must be something to it. Ever since 1895 to be exact, the fraternity houses have been completely deserted one cold March night, and everyone whose heart beats in the rhythm of "Wahoo" is a part of the congregation in Webster Hall, which, with a sort of religious exaltation, is celebrating the rites of Dartmouth Night...
...Governor Richard Webster Leche, New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, and Seymour Weiss-by "going over" to the 1940 gubernatorial candidacy of rebellious ex-Governor James Albert Noe. Another hot candidate for Huey Long's old crown, as yet firmly on no man's head, is his brother, Earl, now Lieutenant-Governor...
...uncut Hamlet, Margaret Webster's fine direction gives life and movement to a congested, multiform play. If the production has faults, they spring from excess of theatricality, not from taking Shakespeare too reverently. As Falstaff, Actor Evans has gusto and wit, though not quite enough of the knight's profound worldliness. And-perhaps surprisingly-he is better as the fat roisterer than he was as the melancholy Dane...