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Stories Of The Stars In "Hamlet”

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER:3, 1948.

CINEMA WORLD

To See, Or Not To See? There Is No Question

"Suddenly we realiso, as we should hava dono long

ago, that Shakespeare had something of im- portance to say to us and an oyon more startling discovery-he could say it entertain- ingly."

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So did Henry W. Simon write in an introduction to collection of Shakespeare's five great tragedies. The tortuous yet forthright tole of the Prince of Denmark he termed "the eternal struggle between decision and inaction that makes every one recognise the problems of "Hamlet" as in some degree his own."

Entate of conflicting emotions: love

Claudius

for her son, Hamlet, presumably love for her husbund!

The 1wo statements Arc "We may pity laat not precon more than upheld by Sir Lau- thee." (Meneuve For Measure) sums up best best the rence Olivier's magnißcent pro- perhaps

resetion R

Queen the spectator's duction い "Hamlet".

Gertrude (Elleen Herbe). Pity LAURENCE OLIVIER AS HAZE screening of which will begin must be shown in her miserable LET. Star, pistarej and director

at the Queen's next Tuesday, of this ini, Lantebev Olivier

Throughout the world this film 10 newcomer du lane. Hally has received the chorus of praise regarded big rek an Hairy VI Robalstarskiteg that alany gatej la which 18 so obviously entitled, whom she has muried incestuously

He war Crabies have exhausted their sup special wind for t

terlives knighted in the King Bathday ples of auditory

Auntienes have left after Honours la f his services to it

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emelusion, reluctantly, aware that something they Britain's

have witnessed, Breatest

In the Exce Un just a Alm. Words of Quan. "The learned

the stage

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star.

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within a month of the death of his brother, and deep

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obvious horror in which Humlet

choles

Its her actions..

trom "Henry VI," to Horatio we must say: "in thy face I see the 01253) of honour, truth and loyalty."

One other character must be mentioned for his delightful relief of tragedy. Of the Gravedigger Stanley Holloway), whose part is a combination of those of the two clowns in the original, it may met aptly be said, "Thy wit is a very bilter sweeting: it is most sharp samico.' (Romeo And Jutlet).

Without the Bard to help, at tention must still be drawn to the wonderful use of the camera throughout "Hamlet". When the Action would normally 101 down greatly, as in the soilo. quion, the camera koeps interest alive with its maander. inge. natural yet en artful. It combines magifcently with the vivid music William Walton to produce sharp effect.

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of

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The most obvious case of this to the

trepidation feeling of conveyed to the audience at the approach of the ghost.

In conclusion, to put the seal on Potonium (Felix Aylmer) la athia orgy of quotation, it is only windbag, displaying more en-lling that there should be some thusiasm than intelligence in his sort DE comment

Willaun activities

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He Shakespeare. Let George Bernard serves his purpose and towards Shaw be heard:

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OPENING

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HAMLET,

PRINCE OF

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"Yea, from the table of my memory

I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,

All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there;"

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There has ! 11 stender great tragediennes of the soothesti | English Theutsa ass Herle dusty of adverse crifieisin admed performance The Nogle Bus at the tim Sir Lattrence, in his Two He won for the huge inexac wisabon, made some slight award for the best acting of the alteration in the work, omilled

Her year

cpe of Hoseneraaz and Guildenstern. *1 emotion stamps her bong an, number of manner characters, ant To Polonius the Queen at one notress of one mad quality. junarte smell alterations to ensure stage remarks tersely, "More the unfilering continuty of ae-mailer, less art." We night -

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BASIL SYDNEY AR KING' Dow CLAUDIUS. A Gul and actor with a distingide best repretatio na Shakespeareant and elarges ter arlor, Homest Fargots Hamlet in the News Teuk thotre, Mr. Sydney now give

a remark

able performance as the usurper of Balet's crown, the issue be make un eten ligger zueneme ab the it than he did when he played the varme role ont fixe stad In Landos,

JEAN SIMMONS AS HELIA. Eigbfemm-year-old ** whose acting a "Citrat Expecta- timas" clearly showed hasp in octress of churai anal talent,

To the pundit and the Shakes. pearens slave this tampering with the immortal Bard's work ninaska of sacrilege, IT not heresy. To the majority of peo ple. however, whose reverence for the work of the f. 8. la al. moot certainly greater their actunt aquaintance

than with

in being the Instrument with lety that we even today regard which is accomplished the wet-him not for në nge, but for all fer of deaths which rings down time." the curtain.

phy this with "Men of few words are the best men♫ (enry V.)

Music By William Walton

Ophelia (Jean Simmons) is "A

that paragons description The name of Dr. William makl and with fame; une that exeels the Walton is famous wherever

of bluzuning Wirks

pens: If a small quirk betistened to and discussed. WII- British contemporary music is (Othello). Permilled, though excelled, it is wngth remembering that this Misstian Walton entered the film Simmons, whose controlled por-world in 1935

with

score

trayal et

of the girl deranged by the written in a very short space of it. these alterations will not

pressure of her grief is nothing|thne for the Elizabeth Bergner enust any dismay--even if they than masterly, was 18 years film "Escape Me Never."

of age when chosen for the part.

Priably The most stable

are noticed.

To dispose of all carping at once

host

1t

to

Then came "Henry V" Iliustrate his mastery of the let us mention the one point character in "Hamlet" is the f which Jocal audiences

correct use of muale in.-films, may find Horatio (Norham Wooland).

And now Walton has written vinee for slight complaint, The the east he is listed as "friend the brillant new music for and potentially one of the great as an honest ghost that let me indeed throughout the play.

vruce of Bartel's father's ghost

to Hamlet," and Triend he

Laurence Ollyler's "Hamist." est British "Star" di novestes fel

This was recorded with the Jong tienes

tell you") is not easy to under- he stand. To give it the proper ghost into the presence of his father's ed by Muir

who first brings Humlet

Philharmonic Orchestra conduct- Mathieson on the ghost. And it is be who, in the Music Theatre stage at Denham. tone to it which unfor-

for last scene, bids farewell to his It is the work of men like Wil- friend in those most beautifu! | Ham Walton that has raised the "Henry V and has nuts the clappings of the tongue on the worrts: "Now cracks a noble standard of incidental musie in

stormsences will be putaly, remen bered He g lomst das matamilar phraseology of Shakes heart, Good night sweet Prince, films in this country to a level

in stare pente, does tend to make hearing lights of angels sing thee to second

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In describing the parts of the Various characters in this tragedy (or should one say the characters of the various parts) the obvious course is tu all upon Shakespeare himself.

"Canst thou not minister to a

mind diseased; Pluck from the

rooted sorrow, Baze out the written troubles of

the brain;

memory a

And, with some sweet

viour antidote.

obli.

Cleanse, the stuffed bosom of

that perilous stum, Which weigha

heart."

upon the

That was Mucbeth, addressing the doctor on the subject ut Lady Macbeth, but it might well be applied to Hamlet, suffering the conflyling rumpulsions of mercy, by his intellect, and vengeance

by his father's ghost.

est. In "Measure For Measure" Shakespeare sup- piles an equally apt, and briefer, description which could be op- plied to the Prince. "A wretched

bruised

with

adversity,"

Soul

of

Cinucius (Bosil Sydney), murderer of his brother and hus- band

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