Thursday, August 7, 2014

From Emily Walker's Tacoma News Tribune Column, about Richard Burton's Hamlet on Electronovision 1964

"...three hours of watching Richard Burton's superb performance had left me in pieces...when the curtain fell...tears were rolling down my face, out of my nose, I couldn't see what I was doing, and I couldn't stop...I stumbled out, with the others...You who didn't see Burton's Hamlet at the Temple missed something wonderful...Here is a man who may be long remembered as the greatest Hamlet of them all."  These are quotes from Emily Walker's review in the News Tribune, printed the Sunday after the "Electron-o-vision" (as she called it) show on Wednesday and Thursday, September 23 and 24th 1964.

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