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...Concord (N.H.) prep school broke precedent by picking a layman to succeed the Right Rev. Norman B. Nash, now Bishop of Massachusetts. The new (and sixth) rector: Henry Crocker Kittredge, 57, historian of Cape Cod, self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge has taught Shakespeare and Latin there for 30 years, has been vice-rector for 18. He and his predecessor went to school (Cambridge Latin and Harvard) together...
...addition the early English dress and the Shakespearean method of dramatization is designed to make the audience feel that it is witnessing an Elizabethan production. This follows the method which was used successfully in the film version of "Henry...
...Shakespearean Actor Donald Wolfit, whose wares are popular in the English provinces (TIME, March 3), had no luck selling Hamlet, King Lear and As You Like It to Broadway critics, and only fair luck selling The Merchant of Venice. But last week when he fished up Ben Jonson's Volpone (rhymes with macaroni), a play that modern Broadway had never seen as Jonson wrote it,* the crowd- or, at any rate, the critics-made an excited grab...
Died. Ben Webster, 82, longtime Shakespearean actor, onetime leading man to Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, husband of veteran stage & screen Actress Dame May Whitty, father of Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Los Angeles...
...Gilbert detested hypocritical modesty in women, and such "ideal" types as mild-mannered curates. Of the clergy in general he was shy and suspicious. He also disliked his fellow dramatist William Shakespeare, whose writing he considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge. But I can't for the moment...