Word: shakespearean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the U.S. theater's most successful director of Shakespeare's works (sample feat: she made a hit of the Maurice Evans Hamlet in the uncut version, running 4½ hours) is launching her most ambitious Shakespearean venture. She is sending out a motorized touring company to play Shakespeare on a scale-and with financial assurance-unprecedented by any other troupe of Broadway caliber...
Barely an hour after the shuttle started, Shakespearean Scholar Gerald Bentley wanted to lay his hands on a book about Charles I right away. He got it from Firestone in ten minutes...
...Better than the play, said some British critics of Sir Laurence Olivier's most recent Shakespearean effort: 1. Hamlet. 2. Richard III. 3. Macbeth. 4. Henry VIII. 5. Love's Labour's Lost...
...once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from "Shakespearean" pseudo-rustics. Terence Morgan, as Laertes, is the quintessence of an old aristocrat's fine, somewhat spoiled son. For once, Queen Gertrude is young enough, and beautiful enough, to explain all the excitement she generates in the Ghost, his murderer and her son. Indeed, Eileen Herlie, who is only...
Young Miss Simmons has an unspoiled talent for speaking with an open voice or, in an old Shakespearean phrase of Robert Benchley's, from the heart rather than the roof of the mouth. She has an oblique, individual beauty and a trained dancer's continuous grace. As a result, she jerks genuine tears during scenes which ordinarily cause Shakespeare's greatest admirers to sneak out for a drink. Compared with most of the members of the cast, she is obviously just a talented beginner. But she is the only person in the picture who gives every...