Comedies and tragedies of Wm. Shakespeare

              ONE YEAR AT CENTURY OF PROGRESS CHICAGO

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The Sensation OF THE San Diego, Dallas and Cleveland Fairs
UNANIMOUSLY PRAISED BY CRITICS

TAMING OF THE SHREW

Makes the conventional motion picture look like slow motion.—
Ashton Stevens, Chicago American.


Swift, pointed, shrewd and unendingly funny.—
Lloyd Lewis, Chicago Daily News.



ROMEO AND JULIET

If the local critics seem a little fond and delirious in their incessant praise of the Globe Theater, there is a definite reason.—
John W. Rogers, The Dallas Times Herald



MACBETH

In no acted version of any of his (Shakespeare's) dramas have I ever seen the poignancy of sleeplessness made so real.—
Lloyd Lewis, Chicago Daily News.



JULIUS CAESAR

The old time spell of theatre going … the most dramatic and electric finale I have ever seen.—
Lloyd Lewis, Chicago Daily News.



COMEDY OF ERRORS

An exciting taste of what a laughslide in London seemed like three hundred years ago.—
Ashton Stevens, Chicago American.


When you get to a Century of Progress, be sure not to miss these players … They are worth going to Chicago to see.—
Robert Garland, New York World-Telegram.



AS YOU LIKE IT

Fairly crackled with zest.—
Claudia Cassidy, Chicago Journal of Commerce.


Gusto, action and fire.—
Lloyd Lewis, Chicago Daily News.



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Shakespeare's ghost must have hovered around that gorgeous performance … He simply couldn't have stayed away.—
“Line O'Type,” Chicago Tribune.



HAMLET

Epochal in character was the two hour presentation of William Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet'.  The success of the production as a whole is a triumph.—
Wallace Moody, San Diego Union



DOCTOR FAUSTUS

At its premiere, took top honors for the season in attendance and acclamation.—
John Rosenfeld, Jr., The Dallas Morning News.


This performance burns like a forest fire.  An instant and undebateable hit.—
Ashton Stevens, Chicago American.


The Globe Theatre is a gem and the production was fine.—
Max Reinhardt.


Full, clear enunciation.  There are belly laughs but no burlesque.—
Time.


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The Reopath Bureau, Kimball Bldg., Chicago, Presents
THE FAMOUS OLD GLOBE THEATRE PLAYERS THOMAS WOOD STEVENS, DIRECTOR

In Their Brilliant Repertory of the COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES OF WM SHAKESPEARE…


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CARL SCHURZ HIGH SCHOOL
Tuesday, February 23, 1937
Matinee 1:20 p.m.
Julius Caesar and As You Like It
Admission: Students 25c Adults 40c





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Were You Amona the Crowds That Tried to See Us at the Fair?  NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO SEE THE PLAYS IN COMFORT


OVER - A - MILLION LAUGHED—CRIED—APPLAUDED!
The news got about—the Old Globe was a hit!  They came in swarms to the theatre in the Village of Merrie England at Chicago's Century of Progress.  The same thing happened at the San Diego, Dallas and Cleveland Expositions.  The whole world came … jamming the space in front of the box office, forcing extra guards to hold them back. … demanding standing room when the seats were gone.

And the shows were Shakespeare!  No event has ever so startled the hard boiled men of the theatre.  Shakespeare was a smash success.

The Old Globe players have discovered why.  Shakespeare wrote for a stage that was built for action faster than the cinema.  So they constructed for themselves a stage exactly like his!

Shakespeare wrote for speed in presentation — for loud laughter and shaking emotion.  He had to.  There was the howling mob in the pit to be considered.

So the Globe players throw into their acting a vivid realism and vitality that completely defies the laborious and oratorical traditional with which Shakespeare has been surfeited.

As Ashton Stevens of the Chicago American proclaimed.  One thousand successive performances of Shakespeare in one playhouse is the most important dramatic item ever written.




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