Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three second prizes of $25 each went to Richard H.R. Smithies '57, who recited "Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister" and "My Last Dutchess" by Robert Browning; Ralph B. Perry III '58, who presented Cicero's First Oration Against Cataline; and Donald G. Richards '56, who read "The Tombs of Westminster Abbey...
Filmed TV last week easily outdistanced live television. The most impressive triumph was Sir Laurence Olivier's Richard III, which justified NBC's cultural gamble by capturing a huge audience (estimated, perhaps too optimistically, at 45 million viewers) and holding them for three hours, despite the involved plot and the soaring but often obscure language...
...first word ("pretty"), it was as though the curtain had just come down on the tremendous third act of a moving tragedy. The dramatic line was strengthened by Orson Welles's occasional readings. In its way, Out of Darkness was as shaking a human experience as Richard III. Undoubtedly it will be shown again...
...gambling domain of Monte Carlo last week prepared a new game of chance, just for newsmen, who dubbed it "Rainier Roulette." Although hundreds of U.S. and European correspondents were preparing to cover the wedding of Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly of MGM, it looked as though only the luckiest kind of a chance would get any of the working press into the throne room and cathedral. Before leaving...
...Richard III. Shakespeare's sinister parable of power is made into a darkly magnificent film by Sir Laurence Olivier, who plays the title role with fiendish skill and satanic majesty. The supporting cast: Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom, Pamela Brown (TIME, March...