Word: shakespearian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group staged many plays, including 11 Shakespearian ones, in its brief three-year history. But it could never hope to make money. Eve if the Theater was sold out every night--and it wasn't--there would have been a deficit. The small capacity and the relatively low prices (tickets ranged from $3.30 top to a low of $90--the latter serving as a "come-on for suckers," Bryant Haliday '49 recalls) assured this. In the long run, the players themselves were the "suckers," and the Brattle movie theater opened...
Hunt also pointed out that this was not the first time such as set has been constructed. In 1895, a set was built in Sanders and was used for over twenty years for various Shakespearian productions...
...extremely interested to read of the impending production of Macbeth. It has long been a problem that has puzzled Shakespearian scholars as to the real identity of Macduff. Much research on the matter has been undertaken, notably by that fine scholar Mr. Timothy Cobb of Budo. At the moment the conclusion reached is that Macduff was, indeed, a hen. Hard as this is to credit, careful reading of the play leaves no doubt...
...Brattle Theatre will present four Shakespearian plays this summer beginning on July 5 with "Henry the Fourth, Part I," Bryant Haliday '49 announced last night. The purpose of the run is to raise money for the planned Harvard Theatre...
...good teacher is likely to be a born ham, according to the University of Southern California's Shakespearian expert, Dr. Frank Baxter. Dr. Baxter's diagnosis explains why more and more professors are drifting from their cloistered halls to the glaring arena of television. After his Now and Then show ran for 39 weeks on the CBS network, Professor Baxter became a real celebrity and admits that he has enjoyed every minute of it. He turns up at movie premiéres and Hollywood cocktail parties, gets invited to the Library of Congress to give poetry readings...