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Stratford, Conn.: Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and Antony and Cleopatra with Robert Ryan and Katharine Hepburn among the featured players...
...with his hands in the dishpan." Up from the dishpans, Dick worked doggedly through Whittier College and then went on to Duke University Law School on a scholarship (he eked out his scholarship by rooming in a ramshackle farmhouse). Back in Whittier, he met and married Pat Ryan, a pretty red-headed schoolteacher who, if anything, had come along an even more hardscrabble road (TIME cover, Feb. 29). After naval service in the Pacific during World War II, Lieut. Commander Nixon found himself in Baltimore, wondering, like many another young veteran, what to do with himself. He caught wind...
...Nixon's mother, Russell Harrison; sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward Nixon; brother, Navy Lieut. Edward Nixon; uncle, Dr. Ernest Nixon; aunt, Mrs. Oscar Marshburn; uncle, Oscar Marshburn; sister-in-law, Mrs. Donald Nixon; brother, Donald Nixon; Pat Nixon's sister-in-law, Mrs. William Ryan; brother-in-law, Matthew Bender; brother-in-law, William Ryan. Seated from left: Mother Hannah Nixon, Daughters Julie and Patricia, Wife Pat. † His equally handsome younger brother, John Davis Lodge, now Ambassador to Spain, was for a brief time a leading man in films. His sister, the Baroness Edouard de Streel, lives...
Still, this production is not free from major disappointments, which could and should have been foreseen and forestalled by Landau and others concerned. The fault, dear reader, is not in ourselves, but in our stars--in this case, two Hollywood movie stars, Katharine Hepburn and Robert Ryan. They are both fine performers in their proper spheres, which in neither case includes Shakespeare. This unsuitability carries with it no ignominy; and the obvious devotion and will of these two cannot compensate. In the past decade, Miss Hepburn has played Rosalind, Portia, Beatrice, and Viola--none with great success. Ryan has done...
...judgement (not even Shakespeare makes credible his decision for a sea battle) and prowess (he even bungies his suicide) are quite gone. Once in a while we are told that Antony was great; Shakespeare should have shown us--but, since he didn't the actor somehow should, and this Ryan fails to do. Ryan does not even make anything of Antony's one superb action in the play: the dispatching of Enobarbus' "chests and treasure" after the latter has deserted. I shall never cease to regret that Shakespeare didn't write another play covering Antony's life during the year...