Recites Shakespeare *** Dramatic Recitations *** HAMLET - HAMLETS SOLILOQUY Now I am Alone (Act 2, Scene 2) (Shakespeare) Background music: Nocturne - Borodins Second Quartet String quartet: Nat Shilkret - director Recorded: April 13, 1928 HENRY VI - GLOUCESTERS SOLILOQUY Ay, Edward Will Use Women Honorably (Part 3, Act 3, Scene 2) (Shakespeare) Background music: Sonata Tragica - MacDowell, Op. 45 - Largo String quartet: Nat Shilkret - director Recorded: April 13, 1928 John Sidney Blyth (February 15, 1882 -- May 29, 1942) ~ better known as John Barrymore ~ American actor of stage and screen. He first gained attention as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in his portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III. His success continued with motion pictures in various genres in both the silent and sound eras. Barrymores personal life has been the subject of much writing before and since his death in 1942. Today John Barrymore is known mostly for his portrayal of Hamlet and for his roles in movies like Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1920), Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Twentieth Century (1934), and Don Juan (1926), the first feature length movie to use a Vitaphone soundtrack. The most prominent member of a multi-generation theatrical dynasty, he was the brother of Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore, and was the paternal grandfather of Drew Barrymore. The full wikipedia article can be found here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bar...
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