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...inexplicably become living people, and their story ceases to be a play and becomes life. The Harvard Dramatic Club production of Hamlet ends as a success; the miracle takes place--but not until rather late in a very long evening of theatre. This transformation really begins during the grave-digger scene, and reaches its climax in the duel between Hamlet and Laertes. Both scenes are entirely admirable and entirely effective...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Hamlet | 12/14/1956 | See Source »

...young girl, Miss Iselin shows that she can be. As for Smithies, he gives what is probably his best performance to date. His Polonius is restrained but generally pleasant. Due in large part to their work and that of Marc Brugnoni, in the role of the first grave-digger, the comicscenes are perhaps the most effective part of the production...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Hamlet | 12/14/1956 | See Source »

...Digger Ferrua believes that the catacomb, to judge from its artistic style, dates from the 4th century A.D. It was probably the burial place of a group of families and not used for religious ceremonies. This would account for its absence from ecclesiastical records. Many of the pictures are about obscure subjects, and much work will have to be done before their significance can be determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Another Catacomb | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

First Englishman. In 1935 another amateur digger, London Dentist Alvan T. Marston, found a fossil bone 24 ft. below the surface in Swanscombe's Barnfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fire? | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...what this fellow says? He says we spend most of our money on booze, foreign cars and regional stigmata. Stigmata, oh my God! He says we get drunker than anybody else. He says we keep electric wormdiggers in Hepplewhite chests. Now who the hell has ever seen a worm digger around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guys & Dols | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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