#brooks atkinson

[newyorkthegoldenage]

East of the Hudson by J. Brooks Atkinson, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, dust jacket illustrator unknown.

From 1922–1960, Brooks Atkinson (1894-1984) wrote for the New York Times, primarily as the drama critic. Here he muses about the city he loves. He would later publish a diary of a year spent living in the city titled Once Around The Sun.

Text & photo: StuffNobodyCaresAbout

[saturdaynightlivedork]

From Brooks Atkinson’s Once Around the Sun (1951).

[julesofnature]

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Brooks Atkinson

[shakespearenews]

Helge Kökeritz, a Shakespearean scholar who once inspired the cast of a Yale Shakespeare production to pronounce the words as the Elizabethans might have, died at Falköping, Sweden, according to sources here. He was 61 years old...

In “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” which started Yale's eightday Shakespeare Festival in 1954, Professor Kökeritz coached the cast in Shakespearean diction, achieving the effect chiefly in vowel structure. Mercy was pronounced “marcy,” speak was “spake,” and desert “desart.” The “G” was dropped in words ending in“ing.” The aim, in part, was to produce the play as it had been written and to bring to the theater more of what one member of the production then called the forgotten dramatization of Shakespeare's works.

Of the production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” scenes of which were televised on “Omnibus” over the Columbia Broadcasting System, the critic Brooks Atkinson said: “This is an unusual event chiefly because the actors attempt to pronounce the words in the Elizabethan fashion. Yale's extensive Shakespeare incunabula include, among other sacred treasures, Professor Helge Kökeritz. [He] made a fascinating Columbia recording of excerpts from Shakespeare, read with what he believes to be the original word values.

More and image source. 

15 minutes of production footage are available at the LoC. 

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can be let go.

Brooks Atkinson

[annafyuen]

New York City (2018) // Ilford HP5 Plus, Canon AE-1

[musicallockscreens]

Set of Waitress Lockscreens 🍰

[broadwaybabyspice]

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