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...signatures were not compulsory, no cut and dried figures are available for comparison, but a rough estimate showed that the barbers, the largest single trade in the Square, were as divided about, political candidates as they are about long and short haircuts--they just couldn't make up their minds...
...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...
Assembled with Producer Gordon's customary lavishness, effectively mounted and costumed by Jo Mielziner, St. Helena naturally invites comparison with Manhattan's other current play about a famed historical character, Victoria Regina...
...wretched and looks out upon life's kaleidoscopic panorama with eyes dimmed but kindly, has become one of the most popular characters in stock. But in Great Laughter Fannie Hurst has created an aged grandmother who seems destined to end ail aged grandmothers in popular fiction. In comparison with her, the teetering representatives of the oldest generation in the Jalna novels of Mazo de la Roche are just so many leaping adolescents, the doddering Forsytes of John Galsworthy are scarcely of school age. For Fannie Hurst's Gregrannie at the age of a hundred is still managing...
...Allen assures us that he is satisfied with the transformation of "Anthony Adverse", and there is no reason for the moviegoer to feel otherwise. The celluloid Anthony differs, to be sure, from the paper one, but so long as the movie is good in itself, a comparison is more or less idle...