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...cinema rights of his plays (with the exception of two shorts: How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man), Bernard Shaw not only helped write the script for Pygmalion but agreed to let Producer Pascal film all his other plays. Producer Pascal will soon start work on Caesar and Cleopatra...
...thousands of tiny skulls, with the mob off-stage howling and shrieking, bellowing bawdy songs, braying the Carmagnole, Danton's Death jerks forward in short, swift scenes of sinister lights and even more sinister shadows. Many of the stage effects are bold and startling; but where, in Julius Caesar last season, vivid technique heightened a throbbing story, in Danton's Death the technique mercilessly, luridly spotlights a pallid, waxen corpse...
Professor Frederick H. Cramer of Mount Holyoke College, will lecture on "Roman Schools of Caesar's Time" at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Lawrence Hall, at 8 p. m. This is the first of a series of lectures by Professor Cramer on the topic "Education and the State in the Roman Empire...
...heartily approves of the tendency of some recent shows, such as last season's "Our Town" and "Julius Caesar," to do away with elaborate and "realistic" scenery, declaring that the stage's limits are the audience's imagination...
Hamlet (by William Shakespeare; produced by Maurice Evans). Biggest Shakespeare news in the theatre last season was a Julius Caesar cut to half its ordinary size. Biggest Shakespeare news this season may well be a Hamlet swollen to twice its usual bulk. Last week Actor-Manager Maurice Evans (Richard II) rang up the curtain at 6:30 p.m. on "the first uncut Hamlet in New York" before a half-fashionable, half-earnest first-night audience who sat back grimly in their seats and waited to see if they could take it. When, after allowing a half-hour intermission for dinner...