Word: brutus
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Among the outstanding American Hamlets there are pictures and playbills of the productions of Junius Brutus Booth and his more famous son, Edwin. A playbill, dated 1864, announces the appearance of the eminent tragedian John Wilkes Booth, brother of Edwin and assassin of Abraham Lincoln, in the role of Hamlet at the Boston Museum...
Bingham also explained that Bill Neufeld, new Freshman track coach, had been recommended to him by Brutus Hamilton, head coach of the Olympic team, when Bingham had expressed a desire to get an assistant track coach...
...when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome. Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar's legions tore his army to pieces at Pharsalia. Caesar, "voted" dictator, was king in all but name. And when he fell, four years later, under the daggers of Brutus and Cassius, it was only to make way for the more thoroughgoing autocracy of Augustus...
Author Bentley, without disallowing history's whispers that Caesar was a rake, minimizes the details. Readers who expect a luscious Egyptian interlude with Cleopatra do not know their Bentley. Cleopatra makes only one appearance-fully clothed and middleaged. Caesar's most constant mistress was Servilia, Brutus' mother, and of her Author Bentley contrives to make a somehow noble Roman matron, though she was twice married and continually unfaithful to both husbands. The other chief figures in the story appear as conventional history reports them: Pompey, a handsome, courageous, slow-minded soldier; Cicero a henpecked, opportunistic politician with...
...Helen Hayes, looking not unlike Maude Adams, was touring in Pollyanna when the chance came to work for the playwright who had made Miss Adams famed. The piece was Sir James Barrie's Dear Brutus. The leading man was William Gillette.* And there was not a dry eye in the house when Helen Hayes got through wringing the last teardrop out of the scene in the wood where Gillette, the childless artist, meets the daughter he might have...