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...appearance of a new Hamlet on the boards of an English-speaking theatre is traditionally the signal for drama critics to begin behaving like racehorse handicappers. For when an actor goes as Prince to Elsinore he invites comparison with the past performances of flashy favorites. Last week able John Gielgud appeared on Broadway in Guthrie McClintic's Hamlet. True to tradition, play-reviewers threw down their programs, rushed to their form books to weigh Mr. Gielgud's worth against every Hamlet from Barrymore, Forbes-Robertson and Irving to Booth and Burbadge. Consensus seemed to be that next month...
Booked for a radio interview along with Cinemartist Walt Disney and a young actor playing Donald Duck, Soprano Grace Moore (One Night of Love, The King Steps Out) stormed about the studio until the duck's part was eliminated. Squealed she: "I will not sing with livestock...
...failure of the recording apparatus, all talks were recorded in duplicate. Although the Tercentenary work was not the initial attempt to preserve historic speeches, it was the most extensive. The archives already contain recordings of the voices of President Eliot, Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes, Edwin Booth, the actor...
Named corespondent was Actor Philip Merivale, who was bedded with Actress Cooper in the opening scene of last season's Manhattan dramatic success, Call...
...Gorgeous Hussy starts out as if its sole purpose were to reveal to a cinema public already well posted on the subject the details of Actor Robert Taylor's profile seen from the right. When Actor Taylor, functioning as Lieutenant Timberlake, has been removed from the proceedings by heroic death in action, the picture gathers pace. The idealistic love of Peggy (Joan Crawford) for Senator John Randolph (Melvyn Douglas); her marriage to Eaton (Franchot Tone); and her single-minded devotion to President Jackson (Lionel Barrymore) form a pattern which balances in entertainment whatever it may lack in educational value...