Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — Humors of “Hamlet" [ARTICLE]

Humors of “Hamlet"

William Davldge related in his “Footlight Flashes" that during his strolling days In England, when companies were small, he had on the same evening done duty for Polonlus, the ghost; Ostric and the first gravedigger, and Edwin Booth remembered Thomas Ward dying In sight of the audience as the player king and being dragged from the mimic stage by the heels to enter immediately at another wing as Polonlus, crying “Lights, lights, lights!" Hamlet in a one night town, shearing (.he loved Ophelia better than forty thousand brothers, has watched her through an open grave packing her trunk in the place beneath, while the ghost, her husband, waited to strap it up. There are more things in Hamlet's existence behind the scenes than are dreamed of In the philosophy of all his commentators and all his critics.—EYom the Green Book.