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TOP LEFT: [[italics]] Edwin Booth as [[/italics]] Hamlet. TOP RIGHT: [[italics]] Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson in [[/italics]] Macbeth. ABOVE: [[italics]] Paul Robinson, Uta Hagen and Jose Ferrer in [[/italics]] Othello. 

     In 1900, Richard Mansfield could still break a record with 53 performances of [[italics]] Henry V [[/italics]] in which he entered on a white horse. But times were changing. The problem play was coming to the fore, ideas about Elizabethan staging were developing, symbolism and constructivism were making themselves felt, and the devotion to the text was becoming stronger. By 1938 when Margaret Webster offered both the uncut and cut versions of [[italics]] Hamlet [[/italics]] to New York audiences, the cut version had to be dropped because the four and a half hour version of the play was so much more popular. 
     The sets of Robert Edmond Jones probably contributed to the success of John Barrymore's 1923 [[italics]] Hamlet, [[/italics]], which was sustained for 101 performances to break the Booth record. That same year saw Jane Cowl shatter the [[italics]] Romeo and Juliet [[/italics]] ran for 129 performances, the John Gielgud [[italics]] Hamlet [[/italics]] (in New York) for 132, and the Maurice Evans [[italics]] Richard II [[/italics]] for 133. In 1942, Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson achieved 131 performances in [[italics]] Macbeth [[/italics]] and in 1943-44 Paul Robeson broke the all time record for any Shakespearean play with 276 performances of [[italics]] Othello [[/italics]]. Later, however, Olivia de Haviland's [[italics]] Romeo and Juliet [[/italics]] (1951) lost $170,000 in forty-eight performances, Anthony Eustrel's [[italics]] Much Ado About Nothing [[/italics]] (1952) lost $40,000 in four performances; and Orson Welles' [[italics]] King Lear [[/italics]] (1957) lost about $60,000 in twenty-seven performances. 
     Today, the fame of Shakespeare is still expanding by virtue of numerous Spring and Summer Shakespeare festivals throughout the United States. The most ambitious of these is the American Shakespeare Festival and Academy which has offered twenty-five productions with varying success since 1955. As for the future, it still appears that if the well publicized 400th Anniversary does not succeed in breaking the modern jinx of Shakespeare's financial failure on Broadway, it may remain largely up to the Shakespeare festivals and the occasional tour of noted British companies to keep this great tradition alive in the United States.

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[[bold]] [[italics]] On a personal bias by Bernice Peck [[/italics]] [[/bold]]

The coiffure influence of Britain's Beatles lingers on. Paradoxically, it seems to be working its way [[italics]] up, [[/italics]] right into high fashion. Suzy Parker, for instance, that unchallenged beauty of fashioned magazine pages (her trademark the tossing mane) is being seen around in a very different kind of personal hairdo.

To me it looks like a scaled-down, neatened Beatle, with very flat silky bangs slashed all the way around to behind her ears. A real chop-job. The back hair, what's left of it, just hangs childishly straight and long.

As a flattering hairdo, it is a big nothing. But in it, Miss Parker looks younger than Lolita and, inevitably, twice as beautiful. Friendly warning to emulators over thirty: watch it, ladies.

[[bold]] [[italics]] a sudden rush of beauty... [[/italics]] [[/bold]]

What [[italics]] is [[/italics]] the pretty lady doing all upside down like that? Nothing but getting prettier in a hurry by reversing the nasty law of gravity. Classically, the position of head down and feet up is a real beauty angle, wonderfully productive in many ways.

It revs the body's tired motor, lessens fatigue, relaxes tensions, nudges indolent circulation. Nicest of all, it sends a sudden rush of beauty to the face and neck, which can look simply spangled with freshness in five minutes - even les if you're late for the theatre.

The simplest approach is to lie flat on the floor on your back with a couple of pillows under your hips. Lie close enough to a chair to prop your feet on its seat. That is absolutely all. Enjoy.

Of course, if you'd rather be fancy, stores like Hammacher Schlemmer carry real slant boards (about $35) that prop you into position. And I've heard about, but haven't tried, that newer contrivance called the Yoga Wheel. This, for all I know, might deliver an even superior tip-up (at $250). But one way or another, how about tilting for beauty's sake?

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[[bold]] [[italics]] the pink of fragility.. [[/italics]] [[/bold]]

When it comes to making a woman look delightfully, delicately pretty, there is no lighter surer hand than that of Miss Elizabeth Arden. This is her specialty. And the fashions, all so soft and feminine, play right into her hand.

See how you like yourself in her new Fragile Look. (For utter flattery I class it with white organdie.) You'll have fun finding out from the Fragile makeup packet that, for all of $5,

[[bold]] [[italics]] Sketches by K. Place [[/italics]] [[/bold]]

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