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...Dink"), and the world's most monumental valet (George Jenner), entrained last week in Manhattan for Hollywood, where he will make for Warner Bros, talking pictures of his two great stage successes, The Green Goddess and Disraeli. Actor Arliss had just completed a five-month transcontinental tour as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (TIME, March...
...tooth and stoop of shoulder was Actor George Arliss, now 60, foreordained to be a successful Shylock. The bond between William Shakespeare and a host of U. S. schoolteachers was further assurance that Mr. Arliss, after his tours in The Green Goddess and Old English, could take out The Merchant of Venice and get home a happier, wealthier man, which is what he was when he returned to Manhattan last week from a five-month tour that began in Syracuse and ended, via San Francisco, in Newark...
...sometimes said that, what with all the beard, gestures, famed lines and ancient prejudices that cluster about Shylock, the part is an iron-clad one; and that. since the play is either tragedy or comedy depending on the audience, it might be done as well by Eddie Cantor as by a Great Actor. However true such flippancies may be about the type-part of Shylock, they are certainly untrue of the play's great character-part, Portia. And the Arliss tour was memorable for its introduction of the youngest Portia, and one of the best, on record...
Hampden is the Dean's middle name. His family name is Dougherty, the "Dockerties" of Brooklyn. The first boards he trod were in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he was a gangling "Shylock" in itchy whiskers at the age of 16. He had a year at Harvard and another year, to experiment with his bass-baritone voice and a certain flair for the cello, in Paris...
Significance. Clearly the Agent General's report supplies the Allied Powers with ample data from which to argue that Germany can well afford to pay her pound of flesh. But even Shylock experts will not lose sight of three arresting facts...