Word: langham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth season the Stratford Festival has a new director, Michael Langham, 36, of London's Old Vic, who took over early this year from Director Tyrone Guthrie. Guthrie and other founders of the festival, fearing that Canadian cultural development was being overwhelmed by U.S. influences,* hoped to make Stratford a distinctively Canadian theater. But new Director Langham detected a flaw in their approach: How could Canada claim Stratford as a national theater unless the country's French-speaking population was represented...
...Shakespeare work on this year's program, afforded an opportunity to experiment. Canadian-born Actor Christopher Plummer, who had a Broadway triumph as the Earl of Warwick in The Lark (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), was cast in the title role. Opposite him, as the French King Charles VI, Langham put Gratien Gélinas, the ranking clown of French-Canadian musical revues. Members of Montreal's theatrical corps, schooled in the French acting tradition, were brought to Stratford to people the French scenes. The play was a solid hit, with Shakespeare's French and English contrasts made...
Clue. In Chicago, 23-year-old Harry Arnold Langham tauntingly mailed his photograph to Oklahoma City cops, who are trying to track him for forgery and car theft...