Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedies of William Shakespeare. When they grow up they go to see Shakespeare revived by commonplace companies with routine reverence, by theatrical archeologists with tedious authenticity, by smart alecks in modern dress. And for many & many an adult the Bard still remains a bore. With eight Shakespearean revivals slated for Broadway this season, with Hollywood equally active and on the eve of releasing Max Reinhardt's three-hour film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, last week the amount of potential ennui the U. S. amusement industry was about to sell its patrons was terrific. Just...
...fine figure of a woman, she has inherited profound theatrical abilities from her father, venerable and gifted Otis Skinner, and her mother, onetime Shakespearean Actress Maud Durbin. Last week Miss Skinner presented in Manhattan her first full-length (1 hr.; six scenes) production with a U. S. scene...
After a scant education in London's public schools, Richard Harrison began hopping bells in Detroit hotels. Stage struck, he went to a dramatic school for a short while, later made a precarious living by giving Shakespearean readings to Negro audiences in Canada. The next 40 years he spent as a dining car waiter on the Santa Fe running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly...
Most famed contemporary cinema performer of Oriental roles, Warner Oland was born in Umea, Sweden, reared in Boston. He arrived at his current specialty after a long stage career in Ibsen and Shakespearean roles which ended when he made his cinema debut in Jewels of the Madonna, with Theda Bara (1917). Thereafter he played in serials like The Violet Diamond of Daroon. His career as a Chinese started when he played Charlie Yong in East Is West (1922). For his first Chan picture he got $12,500. Now he gets $100,000 for three in a row. In private, although...
...visit to the library, famed as the largest on the planet belonging to an educational institution. He necessarily expects great splendor, nor is he disappointed. A three-story Corinthian facade is a satisfactory glory for introduction. Within, a double marble stairway and murals by Sargent are also sufficiently impressive. Shakespearean folios and holographs of Keats, along with original Spectator papers, provide an atmosphere of gentility. Tingling with anticipation, the sightseer passes from these treasures into the dingy depths of the reading-room...