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...Shakespeare plain, you have to see him on a platform stage," said Brooks Atkinson, venerable drama critic of the venerable New York Times, last week after watching the production of seven Shakespearean plays at the Theater Festival of Ohio's Antioch College. The plays were all minor (e.g., Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens), the actors were hardly more than adequate, the productions unfinished. But even so, the performances on Antioch's open-air platform stage were, in Atkinson's opinion, proof that "the sort of marshmallow Shakespeare represented by the Katharine Hepburn As You Like...
...Beggar's Opera (Warner) brings John Gay's renowned, raffish 18th century opera to the screen in English for the first time.* In the role of the highwayman Macheath, Shakespearean Actor Laurence Olivier also sings on the screen for the first time, in an agreeable, light baritone, and makes a fine, swashbuckling badman...
Died. Sir Godfrey Tearle, 68, veteran English Shakespearean actor who last appeared in the U.S. with Katharine Cornell in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), and whose striking resemblance to the late F.D.R. brought him the role of the wartime President in MGM's 1947 A-bomb epic, The Beginning or the End; of cardiac asthma; in, London...
...other performances, in a mixture of British and American accents, range most of the way from the formal to the folksy. In his Hollywood debut, veteran Shakespearean Actor John Gielgud gives the part of Cassius, leader of the conspirators, his meticulous diction, classic profile, and a lean and hungry look. Less traditional in their delivery are Louis Calhern, as a rather tired-looking Caesar, and Edmond O'Brien, in a departure from his usual cops & robbers roles, as Casca, the conspiracy's hatchet man. In the vital role of Brutus, James Mason gives an intense, brooding performance that...
...order to contrast with Shakespearean production techniques, O'Neil and director Ian Cadenhead '53 travelled 2000 miles to scout presentations of "Othello" in Cleveland and Princeton. The Dramatic Club production of the play, O'Neil said, will be a "hybrid" of the Princeton and Cleveland versions...