Word: yorick
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...usually cut when got, to fill a Chair of Spiritonomy would be a difficult task. But with sufficient inspiration the incumbent might well make researches of inestimable value to History. Dr. Johnson might be summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...
...recording. At the Manhattan premiere of this picture the lounge of the Fifth Avenue Playhouse was fixed up like a German beer-garden and the patrons were served with near-beer and pretzels. Good shots: "Sein oder nicht sein" ("To be or not to be") and "Ach, armer Yorick" soliloquies...
...they hear Actor John Doe in the role of Hamlet, having last seen him perhaps as Sherlock Holmes, their visual memory of a detective in a checked overcoat greatly impairs their ability to obtain over the radio an auditory image of a gloomy Dane addressing the skull of "Poor Yorick." If the actor's name is not announced, the British listener can concentrate satisfactorily, enjoys the auditory image...
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...Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well" (TIME, April 11, p. 28). One more sad blunder of newspaper Babbittry. If you have a library, and Shakespeare in it, look up the most misquoted line in literature, and reform...