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Producers have no trouble seeing her as Joan of Arc, Ophelia, Queen Victoria, and a neat pre-beatnik in I Am a Camera. But who in the world would ever cast her as a cowpoke? Herself, Julie Harris, 39, that's who. She thought she'd like to try a bit more TV work, and asked her agent if there might be just a little part on her favorite show, Rawhide? Wai, sure, podnuh, and Julie not only gets to fall in love with Rowdy Yates; she gallops around a cattle drive besides. Nice cast, too. "Handling...
Last week Pat finally went home. She could manage a few words and she could feed herself with her left hand. With her right she tried the first tentative caressing movements when baby Ophelia, ten months old, was put in her bed. She was already trying to learn to walk again. Her obstetrician thought there was a good chance that she would even fulfill her ambition of enlarging her family by carrying to term the baby which she intends to have delivered in England. At week's end though her speech was still limited, Pat Dahl was able...
...YORK CITY. Richard Burton's Hamlet will continue to run for two more weeks on Broadway; during its extended run, Burton's standby, Robert Burr, played Hamlet for Joseph Papp's free Shakespeare group in Central Park in a production that, with Julie Harris as Ophelia, outdistanced the one on Broadway in nearly every respect save the performance of Burton himself. Papp's group is still doing a successful, broad-laugh presentation of A Midsummer Night's Dream from a collapsible mobile theater touring the five Boroughs* (TIME, July 10), and at present in Central...
...Left alone on the stage for soliloquies, he is wooden, stiff-legged and ill at ease. His fencing lessons have resulted in a duel scene that might have been fought between Mrs. Warren Harding and the lady in Ohio. Considering the Gertrude, the Laertes and the Ophelia that surround him, Sawyer is at least letting no one down. The highlight of the production occurs when a procession of supernumeraries enters bearing long poles topped by huge, flaming, antlered skulls. There is no other fire in this Hamlet...
...Nothing is ever at random in art," he said. "The persona begins with the name." And while he warned that "Wilson Knight is perhaps over-ingenious" in his derivations, he said that Arnold, who objected to Ruskin's remarks on Ophelia's name, "has no light to throw on Shakespeare and very little sweetness...