NEW TRADITION FOR SHAKESPEAREAN ROLE.
The theatre is full of surprise* and not the least of these is the sight of a Launcelot Gobbo making one of the outstanding actirg successes of the season on Broadway. Shakespeare’s clowns and Gobbo Jr., in particular, have with the passing centuries become somewhat tedious on the stage, however interesting and amus JT® they remain in the study. Yet Romney Brent in the Arliss-Ames production of “The Merchant Venice” Has made the younger Gobbo such a vivid and comic ye * low that his performance promises to set a new tradition for the role, says an American exchange. Brent, born in Santillo. Mexico, was at the age of five years taken to Paris by his father, then Mexican Ambassador to France. ■ _ boy made his debut as a "super with the Theatre Guild and a * tracted attention in two o' Guild’s Garrick Gaieties and as tne latter of the title roles of Be t r !®fS Shaw’s “Androcles and the Lio y- y-- ••
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 20
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167NEW TRADITION FOR SHAKESPEAREAN ROLE. Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 20
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