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...warm, romantic production of Much Ado About Nothing has got the Group 20 Players off to an impressive start in their seventh season. Their approach to the play is avowedly different from customary ones; and this approach took a good deal of courage...
...Much Ado is an uneven work; it shows Shakespeare at his strongest and at his weakest. The basic story deals with jealousy-inspired treachery--a serious theme the playwright would later return to in Othello and Cymbeline. But at this time, Shakespeare was just casting about for a convenient skeleton to flesh. The whole business of the tragic slandering and the ensuing deception he took from older sources, and clearly wasted little effort on; his treatment of them is decidedly thin. The greatness of the play lies in what Shakespeare himself invented: the dazzing comedy of Beatrice and Benedick...
...addition to directing, Gielgud will play Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, opening Aug. 24. Miss Leighton will play Beatrice in the same production, according to William M. Hunt, executive producer...
After long months of tolerance, the House Patronage Committee grew weary of the lowly paper-folder on the House office staff (salary: $4,000 a year) who had been eased onto the payroll by Pennsylvania's late, sympathetic Democrat Herman Eberharter. With little ado, the committee decided that the nation could henceforth do without the services of brassy John Maragon, 65, onetime Kansas City bootblack, who connived his way to a reputation as one of the Truman era's sleaziest five-percenters...
...memory of her dear, dead days as a student star in Much Ado About Nothing, Bing Crosby's dark-eyed spouse Kathy Grant, 24 (who used to be Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), established a scholarship for drama hopefuls at the University of Texas, which awarded her the degree of bachelor of fine arts at its 1956 summer session commencement...