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Those irreconcilables who can't abide the thought of anyone but Shaw, or Bergman, tampering with the character of Joan, will find possible solace at the Colonial, in viewing John Gielgud's "Love for Love...
...John Gielgud, who has played Hamlet 1,000-odd times, decided at 43 that he is now too old to act the role any more. He reasoned: "If you take 43 as Hamlet's own age, that makes his mother 60 at the very least. . . and no woman of 60 in her right mind is going to carry on around Elsinore the way that Gertrude of Denmark does...
...Over the Horizon. 89. In a theater season marked by revivals, John Gielgud won critics' plaudits for his acting and directing in: 1. Private Lives. 4. Volpone...
Love for Love (by William Congreve; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson in association with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) makes up the second half of English Actor John Gielgud's "Season of comedy" on Broadway. It is not Gielgud's better half; but, after all, Gielgud's Importance of Being Earnest was far & away the most brilliant revival of the season. Earnest, moreover, is only 52 years old; Love for Love, 252. For its age, Love for Love gets around on a Broadway stage very nicely...
Finally he got a part: as a walk-on at the Playhouse Theater. Within a year he had a bit in John Gielgud's Hamlet and met his wife-to-be, Actress Merula Salaman, in Noah. (She was a tiger, he was a wolf...