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Douglas Seale had been hired as director. A Briton with many years of Shakespearean experience, Seale, who will be remembered locally for his exciting Henry V in Sanders Theatre eight years ago, handled two of the Festival's plays last season. So he was far from an unknown quantity. In addition, Lester Rawlins, a fine award-winning actor, had been engaged to play Hamlet...
Richard III was a smash hit from the start. The Elizabethans loved it, and it was printed several times before the 1623 folio collection. Henceforth over the centuries the title role worked as a magnet on the greatest actors more strongly than any other Shakespearean part...
...prick me, do I not bleed?" asked Shakespearean Richard Burton, 38, paraphrasing Shylock. Burton does, frighteningly, for as he explained in Manhattan last week, he has suffered all his life from a mild form of "bleeder's disease," or hemophilia. Recently recruited by the National Hemophilia Foundation, he announced the formation of a Richard Burton Hemophilia Fund, with Wife Liz as chairman, to aid research on the disease...
...Class of 1939's freshman year drew to a close two important academic events occurred: History of Science became the University's 26th field of concentration, and Harvard's foremost Shakespearean scholar, George Lyman Kittredge '82, resigned from the Faculty after several decades as Gurney Professor of English Literature...
HOMAGE TO SHAKESPEARE (Argo). Assorted tributes on his 400th anniversary by poets, musicians and scholars on one side of the record, and on the other, brief readings from his later works by 16 leading Shakespearean actors, including excerpts from two plays now on the boards: Paul Scofield reading Lear's reconciliation with Cordelia and Sir Laurence Olivier delivering Othello's speech to the Senate...