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...dominant person in the first half of the play is King Leontes (Donald Madden), whose consuming jealousy leads him to accuse his visiting boyhood chum King Polixenes (Jack Ryland) of fathering the child his innocent wife Hermione (Maria Tucci) is about to bring into the world. Many people have complained that we are not given the full background and unfolding of Leontes's jealousy. But Shakespeare had already written Othello and there was no need for him to write that play all over again. His purpose here is quite different...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Leontes Damages The Winter's Tale' | 8/5/1975 | See Source »

...Ryland's sinned-against and then sinning Polixenes is a winning performance. His delivery of the "I saw his heart in's face" speech is particularly lovely. If he and Madden had exchanged roles. I suspect we'd have a far superior result...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Leontes Damages The Winter's Tale' | 8/5/1975 | See Source »

When Ry (short for Ryland) Cooder's fourth and latest album, Paradise and Lunch, popped up at the shallow end of the charts this summer, the reaction at Warner Bros. Records was gratification tinged with a trace of awe. Cooder has no gruesomely elaborate stagecraft or lifestyle, and his work is not the sort that goes down easily with Carly Simon fans or Elton John aficionados. His music is elegantly eclectic, running from Leadbelly and Sleepy John Estes blues numbers through main-line ballads of the 1940s to reggae and rock 'n' roll. "Ry's pure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Wizard of Slide | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

Shylock's daughter, who elopes with the Christian Lorenzo, gives the impression, as played by Maria Tucci, of treating her Jewish heritage very lightly. Before you know it, she appears wearing a crucifix, and crosses herself as to the manner born and of the manna shorn. Jack Ryland's Lorenzo, moreover, is hardly worth the trouble of eloping with...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Carnovsky Great in 'Merchant of Venice' | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...hockey, Benjamin B. Baker '61-3, of Winthrop House and Millis, Mass., will replace Jim Lombard as undergraduate manager and G. Neal Ryland '63, of Winthrop House and Richmond, Va., will become varsity manager. Roger A. Gilman '62, of Kirkland House and Storrs, Conn., was choosen to replace Michael Barricks as the head manager in swimming. Robert L. Beal '68, of Quincy House and Chestnut Hill, Mass., will be second manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Varsities Select Managers | 3/25/1961 | See Source »

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