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Shakepeare's longest play has for this production been trimmed to a running time of two and three-quarter hours. Missing entirely are the Dumb Show (for which I have never understood the need anyhow, for the same thing is immediately run through again viva voce), together with Fortinbras, Cornelius and Voltimand. While Fortinbras' absence does not seriously affect the main line of the plot, it does--since he is a foil to Hamlet--mar the architectonic design of the whole. The cuts have led to a bit of tinkering with the lines...
...been a rousing, issue-sharpening affair. Instead, it has turned out to be a thumping bore. Then President Johnson's rising popularity seemed to make the whole show academic. Ironically, Goldwater gained strength from his party's defeatist attitude. Since no Republican had a chance against Johnson anyhow, the argument went, why not let the party's conservative wing have the nomination it has been demanding for so long...
...National Association of Broadcasters said that it would ignore the NAB prohibition of whisky commercials. The dissenting member was none other than the prestigious radio station of the New York Times, WQXR. Soon after it pronounced that all the booze is fit to broadcast (after 10:30 p.m., anyhow) Muirhead's Scotch and Schenley bought all the available time slots, worth up to $70,000 a year...
...Love Him Anyhow...
...Scranton, for instance, in a poll of Republican rank-and-file. However, he has never actively sought the Party's Presidential nomination for 1964, and he has no large organization working for him. Besides, party professionals, who now place him far down the list, have never liked him much anyhow; it is said that they feel he is too independent. But this does not explain much, for while he is certainly not allied with the leaders of the Michigan Republican Party--who are largely outstate legislators--he might fit nicely into the national G.O.P. picture...