Word: shylock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Show Is On" is glorified vaudeville: glorified to such an extent that at the very beginning it receives the verbal sanction of one William Shakespeare who assures us that the entire production is under his personal supervision. Before very long Shylock, bursting in upon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is required to account for his presence in "Hamlet". Later there is depicted a feud in the best Montague-Capulet fashion, between John Gielgud and Leslie Howard, each of whom gives Beatrile Lillie a front seat ticket for the other's performance, each knowing that the performance will prove only a minor side...
...church," runs the clerical proverb, "means a dead parson." No fragile parson is J. Duncan Spaeth, who, at 67, has a voice so thundering that it routs other professors from adjoining classrooms when Dr. Spaeth chooses to pull out his vocal stops, impersonate Shylock or Othello in the grand manner. Last October the trustees of three-year-old University of Kansas City reached him by long-distance telephone, reminded him that his age would automatically retire him from Princeton soon, coaxed him to become their University's first president (TIME, Oct. 14). J. Duncan Spaeth roared, spluttered, accepted...
...Shylock ever existed in the flesh, he might have known Disraeli's family, for they too were once merchants of Venice. Disraeli's grandfather was the first of his tribe to settle in England, where he belonged to London's congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. Disraeli's father, who withdrew from the Jewish Church, had plenty of money, a respectable position in the literary world; his brilliant, handsome son, Benjamin, was under no compulsion to work for his living. But young Ben was consumed with ambition; he panted for Fame...
Then, too, there are the scales, dagger, and document used by Edmund Keane in his portrayal of Shylock in the "Merchant of Venice," a candle snuffer used by Ellen Terry, and a bronze statue of Sarah Bernhardt presented to her by the magician Houdini...
...sentimentalists there were such pieces as the flashily painted Exit Clown, Ballet Girl and Harlequin, and the portrait of Sir Henry Irving as Shylock. And for college boys there were the Shinn nudes, mostly in pastel on colored paper with the high lights carefully brought out. There were enough of these young ladies gazing into mirrors (see cut), reclining on sofas, etc., etc. to outfit a dozen cocktail bars...