Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What noted actress has returned to the stage in a Shakespearean role...
...script, a move which will offend none but the most iconoclastic purist. Director Geddes has also provided an adequate cast. Raymond Massey, a cadaverous young man who brings from London fame as an actor-director-manager (The Man in Possession, Topaze, Grand Hotel) simultaneously makes his U. S. and Shakespearean debut in the title role. Stout Colin Keith-Johnston (Journey's End) of the husky voice is Laertes. Friends of Leon Quartermaine who remember his eminently sympathetic treatment of "Uncle" in Journey's End, regretted that he had a part no larger than Horatio...
...campus of the University of Wisconsin in 1879 where they met, loved, became engaged, sensible Belle Case induced Robert La Follette to drop his notion of becoming a Shakespearean actor, turned his career definitely to Law & Politics. They were married in 1881. She became a politician's ideal wife. Into her husband's campaigns she threw herself with all the force of her able intellect. She kept up his faith in himself and his cause through defeat and discouragement. She was, she boasted, more radical than he. As they aged, they even came to look alike...
WHEN Mr. Raysor states, in his admirable introduction to this first complete and accurate edition of Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism, that "the fragment was the literary genre which was natural to Coleridge, and only in the fragments of marginalia was he entirely himself," he anticipates the present reviewer's reaction to the work in hand. In the first of these two carefully edited volumes appear all of those extant fragments while in the second are contained the reports of the poet's numerous lectures on the subject...
April 10-Arrival in New York City of Japan's Prince & Princess Takamatsu. April 13-May 16-Shakespearean festival; at Stratford-on-Avon, England. April 19-Beginning of "Summer Time'' (Daylight Saving) in England, in France. April 20-Arrival in the U. S. of King Prajadhipok* and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam; at Portal, N. Dak. from Vancouver, B. C.; U. S. residence during their stay: "Ophir Hall" at Purchase, N. Y., grandiose, high-walled estate of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, relict of the onetime U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. April 26-Census Sunday in England. First...