Word: hamletized
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...itself too seriously," says Premier Nitti of Italy; and we think that perhaps he may be right. Our "ravelled sleeve of care" is in a more tattered state than Macbeth's ever was, so that something more than sleep will be needed to knit it up again. And even Hamlet's eminently just complaint that the times were out of joint would today be ranked as an improper understatement of the facts...
...quite sure what remedies Macbeth or Hamlet would suggest for our present maladies. With all their excellent qualities, neither of those gentlemen would be suited to express an intelligent opinion on Prohibition, or the Overalls Movement, or Sinn Fein. If such afflictions as these had been added to their lot, we are confident that neither of them would have succeeded in surviving beyond Act Three...
...good piece of sane and careful thought; the paragraphs on political ferment at Harvard and on prohibition are more in the manner of the Transcript's frequent badinage. The conservatives may read with misgivings the plea for liberalizing our curriculum still further through introducing a course on Hamlet by Forbes Robertson, with histrionic demonstrations of the lectures; but it must be remembered that Columbia has long since stolen a march upon us by establishing a course on the "movies." The articles on the "Reconstruction of a Cripple" views one of the problems of the present day, the re-education...
...Hampden is at present playing "Hamlet" at the Tremont Theatre, and his presentation of this part is considered by leading critics of the stage as more human than other attempts at impersonation of Shakespeare's often attempted and much buffeted hero...
...Harry Irvine, who has played with Sir Herbert Tree and with Forbes Robertson in Shakesperian roles, and is now playing with Walter Hampden '00 in "Hamlet," will speak in Sanders Theatre at 10 o'clock this morning before a large section of English A. All members of the University who wish to hear him are invited to come...