Word: shakespearian
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...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...
Before his death in January 1949, Theodore Spencer, Boyiston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, shared the teaching of English 123 with Matthiessen. The course was taken over by Harry Levin, professor of English, but his main interests are not in the Shakespearian field, and an expert in the area was hadly needed...
...veteran stage & screen comedian; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Equipped with collapsible legs and an elastic face which he contorted into caricatures of exasperation, bewilderment, bliss or imbecility, he played most often the part of a tottering drunk. In Australia, where he was born, he left a Shakespearian stock company to travel with a circus as clown, acrobat and animal trainer. He came to the U.S. in 1908, rose from burlesque to become one of Ziegfeld's top comedians (Sally in 1920), later went to Hollywood, where he made scores of strenuous two-reelers...