Word: reede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every so often the CRIMSON reprints the following exam-period article. Written by Donald Carswell '50, it appeared originally in June of 1950. It won the Dana Reed Prize for that year, and also helped a fair number of people to succeed in beating the system--which is always gratifying to Us and threatening to Them...
...Francisco Hilton for $14.5 million, has spent another $10.4 million on the Warwick Hotel in Houston, owns the 425-room Gran Hotel Bolivar in Lima, Peru. He also controls a New Jersey company that turns out the fast-selling Boonton plastic tableware. Another holding: Houston's Reed Roller Bit Co., which Mecom hopes eventually to make into an oil-equipment supply company rivaling the Hughes Tool Co. Most of all, however, Mecom intends to remain a freewheeling, fast-moving independent oilman. "I'm not selling anything,^ he says. "I'll just keep looking...
...deeply interested in Seale's and Rawlins' conception of Hamlet, and I have little curiosity about Reed's; so I object strongly to being deprived of a Seale-Rawlins production. Such unwarranted interference is bad enough when it occurs on Broadway; it is all the more disgraceful when it plagues a permanent, long-standing Shakespearean institution...
...hard enough at best for audiences and critics to attribute praise or blame for aspects of a production, but the director shoulders over-all artistic responsibility. Whose Hamlet did I see? Was much of Seale's direction retained? To what extent did Fletcher participate? Or did Reed barge in and take over, or at least insist on giving personal approval? Or were a lot of the players left to their own instinctual devices...
...have, in sum, a production that is far from continuously exciting. Yet producer Reed might have had much worse luck. For all its shortcomings, the show is a more satisfying venture than the miserable mishmash that Burton and Gielgud are currently mixed up in on Broadway; and Sawyer is now an actor who deserves careful watching...