Word: hamlet
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...second feature is "The Great Profile," with John Barrymore playing John Barrymore, a pastime which Mr. B. has been indulging in on and off stage for quite some time now. The picture is funny, if you can forget that Barrymore once played Hamlet, and played it magnificently, and if you can forget that he comes from the American theatre's royal family. If you can forget all that, and just take him for a drunken, lecherous, old man with a sense of humor and a flair of exhibitionism, you'll enjoy the picture. But actually, another aristocrat...
...play Hamlet consists entirely of false propositions, which transcend experience, but which are certainly significant, since they can arouse emotions...
...subject. The Book of Ruth, to be sure, contributes one of the most magnificent passages in the English language;* but it is about a mother-in-law. William Shakespeare himself gets uncommonly fancy and feeble; the one grand piece of eloquence Dr. Phelps allows him to deliver is from Hamlet, is spoken in disgust, and is, at that, the mildest dose of vitriol the good doctor could lift out of Hamlet's tongue-lashing. And Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a sometime master of verbal magic, begins a mother-sonnet...
Long before Samuel T. Peace, one of Jeb Stuart's cavalrymen, moved in and gave his name to Peaceburg, Ala., the tiny hamlet tucked away among the cotton fields of Calhoun County had been a going community. Last week no one by the name of Peace was left in Peaceburg. Sadder still, Peaceburg itself was deceased. Its inhabitants had to move away because their town was needed to enlarge the maneuvering ground and artillery range for training of troops stationed at Fort McClellan near...
Shakespearean Directrix Margaret Webster who also did Evans's Richard II, Hamlet and Henry IV, Part I, has done her usual best by the Bard. Stewart Chancy has designed Italianate landscapes that loom softly behind the players. Paul Bowles, among the up-&-coming young American composers, has written lingering music for Shakespeare's songs, celebrating love and death with flute, oboe, harp, harpsichord, percussion and muted trumpet. The Bard, in his latest Broadway manifestation, has got all the breaks a playwright could wish. The audience's rewards are less solid...