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Among the APA's growing assets, the greatest is the emergence of a first-magnitude star among them. One month before forming APA, Rabb presciently married her. Rosemary Harris, 34, has played Desdemona to Burton's Othello, Ophelia to O'Toole's Hamlet, Elena to Olivier's Dr. Astroff and Redgrave's Uncle Vanya. In the U.S., she played opposite Jason Robards in the 1958 Broadway production of The Disenchanted. The British-born, India-reared actress stars in War and Peace and Judith, plays Violet in Man and Superman at alternate performances...
...Shakespeare you crave, hie to the Martinique, where last summer's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Othello, directed by Gladys Vaughan, has been revived. The play itself hardly needs further endorsement--Macaulay went so far as to term it "the greatest work in the world"--but the chief interest here is the portrayal of the title role by James Earl Jones. Life magazine's critic and others rate it above Olivier's. Alas! I am in no position to judge; but, in my own experience, I'd rank Jones above Paul Robeson, Orson Welles, William Marshall, Brock Peters--above...
...which turns a steady profit giving away program magazines to theatergoers around the U.S., is pledged to keep Show going for at least two years. Beginning in February, it will enrich the package by including tear-out coated-paper record-"something like Sir Laurence Olivier doing a scene from Othello." Hartford will stay on as a nonpaid editorial adviser. If the magazine makes out, Hartford may recoup as much...
...Blacks some years ago. A couple of months back I saw him demonstrate perfection in the African play The Blood Knot, which seemed to have been written expressly for him. That was, believe it or not, his twentieth show in three years. Only last week he was playing Othello, though his training and talent do not especially lie in classical drama. And now, in his Boston debut, an O'Neill role for which he is ideally suited...
...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 Park an excellent production of Othello, with James Earl Jones as a hip-swiveling, primitive Moor. The staging is bold. In the bedroom scene, for example, Desdemona (Julienne Marie) does not just wait to be strangled. She makes a desperate dash to get away. Othello chases her, catches her when she trips on a flight...