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...five leads were cast during one-week tryouts last April, and have been spending summer months digesting Shakespearian dialogue. They are Bryant N. Haliday '49 as Henry, Prince of Wales; Kilty as Falstaff; Mendy Weisgal '45 2G as Hotspur; Thayer David as King Henry the Fourth; and Robert L. Wechsler '49 as the Earl of Worcester...
...also important to recognize that this "G.I. Hamlet" is a dramatic but certainly not an artistic success. The bad taste of the Edwardian costumes remains apparent, and the music has hit a new low in Shakespearian efforts-an organ which reeks (literally) of Our Gal Sunday. The total effect of the production is, justifiably, an intended speeding-up and modernizing; only the bad taste which croops in occasionally and the inevitable shortcomings of Evans himself drag it down...
John Gielgud, famed Hamlet and King Lear of the English-speaking world, took an enthralled New Lecture Hall audience by storm yesterday, as he whimpered, ejaculated, and sobbed his way through a series of Shakespearian soliloquies, in an unannounced visit to English...
John Carradine sounded more & more like his late friend John Barrymore. The gaunt, long-maned Shakespearian was trying to get out of paying alimony to his ex-wife-20% of his gross income. He was getting desperate, he cried in a Los Angeles court, he had even attempted suicide. Asked how, he reported: "Twelve double Scotches." The judge ordered him to go right on paying, and also to pay $8,207.36 in back alimony or go to jail...
...cited the difficult role of Miriamne, the female lead, as an example. A few weeks before the play was scheduled to go into rehearsal, it was still without a heroine. Even Theodore P. Allegretti '49 who plays Mio, the male lead, and before the war a Shakespearian thespian, was on the lookout for a suitable co-star...