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Variety/musical short compered by comedian Teddy Bergman. One sequence involves Bergman’s Shylock’s answer to Billy Reyes Antonio’s request for a loan (I iii). After Bergman first plays the sequence...
Comedy short concerning a disastrous performance of two vaudeville actors (Will and Will Not) at a small provincial theatre. Among their acts is one in which they play the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet...
Amateur film. Record of a house party held by author J.M. Barrie at Stanway, Gloucestershire, the home of Lord Wemyss. Written and directed by Barrie, it features a semi-dramatised dream sequence in which...
Feature film. A remake of the 1921 film also starring Matheson Lang (see separate entry). ‘This version boasts considerably better photography, but otherwise is very ponderous and plain. Nor did they go to...
Newsfilm. The laying of the foundation stone for the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre by Lord Ampthill on 2 July 1929. View of the old theatre; members of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Warwickshire and...
Feature film. Anna Neagle is a supposed Nazi sympathiser who is really British to the core and helps foil a German plot to blow up a harbour in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The film opens with two British air-raid...
Feature film. Hamlet transplanted to the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Jiabo. The prince, Lhamoklodan (Rgyal) has returned from his studies in Persia to find his father is dead and his mother has married his...
Dramatic readings of scenes from Shakespeare’s tragedies performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players directed by George Rylands. 1. Julius Caesar. The funeral speech; Romeo and...
Radio broadcast. The actor duo William Macready and Edna Godfrey-Turner recite excerpts from Shakespeare’s plays: Henry VIII - Cardinal Wolsey’s Farewell As You Like It - The Seven Ages of Man Macbeth -...
After walking out of her wedding for a sandwich, Beatrice decides to take a rest at the Stratford Home for Rest and Rehabilitation. Beatrice soon realises that if she wants to get out, she’ll need a plan...
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