Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three Ed Harding pushed through in two games, while John J. Mortimer, four, easily downed his opponent also in straight sets. Only Enos Richardson at five was forced to play three games to defeat Anson Beard at the five postion...
Dazzler F. Davis III, who with Ludington will also represent the University at the invitational tournament in Aiken, S.C. this spring, will play at two; Ed Harding, three; Enos Richardson, Jr., five; Randall W. Hackett, six; and Stanislaus Yassukovitch of Warsaw, at seven...
...picture with taste and skill of a high order, but also "monkeyed around" with the Shakespeare script -cutting, transposing, and sometimes just plain changing-in a wickedly ingenious way. The cast Olivier has assembled is a Who's Who of the British theater-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claire Bloom, Pamela Brown-and they play, for the most part, with a remarkably even and deep-breathing power. Olivier himself interprets the title role with a mastery so complete that Richard III, in this generation can surely never be himself again...
...fiercely then to royal power. The bloody buddy-buddy with Buckingham (Richardson) decapitates the opposition, and Richard III is crowned-"but shall we wear these glories for a day?" He sends two little princes, his nephews, to a strangling bed, and sheds Buckingham as coldly as last season's skin ("None are for me/That look into me with considerate eye"). The rebellions begin, and Richard is slain at last on Bosworth Field...
...King Edward, Sir Cedric Hardwicke is properly cardiac and feckless, but Sir John Gielgud dilutes his Clarence with so much milk of human kindness that the observer cannot really credit him with the murder he bemoans, and so the point of his big scene is lost. Sir Ralph Richardson, too, is scarcely the strong figure that the "deep-revolving, witty Buckingham" should...