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Close your eyes, you say. That doesn't help, for her Shakespearean diction is monotonous, and she shows not the slightest grasp of the music and rhythm of the lines. She ruins Lady Macbeth's crucial "We fail?" and, as Portia, she delivers "The quality of mercy is not strained" as a question. What on earth is one to make of that...
...hesitate to take issue with so eminent a Shakespearean as Mark Van Doren, but his statement that the Duke of York "is the one clearly comic personage" in the play is woefully to misread the role. York is not comic; he is piteous. At any rate Patrick Hines brings to York not an interpretation, but a dozen interpretations. I have not the haziest idea what sort of codger Hines takes York to be. And someone should inform Hines that, in Shakespeare, the word 'issue' is not a sneeze...
...Joseph Papp wants to do is produce Shakespearean plays in Manhattan's Central Park and let people watch them for nothing. Such an ambition would seem to be about as controversial as sunshine, but Papp is forever warring against enormous odds, standing his ground in a swirl of controversy. The first big odd was former Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who insisted that Shakespearean audiences were eroding the city's soil. But Moses departed. Papp hung on, and last week Papp proudly presided over the dedication of a $400,000 amphitheater in the middle of Central Park...
...cover story of their own. Their issue, of course, contains the complete Nelson Rockefeller cover story. But the cover is a specially drawn Canadian political cartoon (see cut) straight out of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Canada's leading cartoonist, Duncan MacPherson, aware that the summer Shakespearean season at Stratford, Ontario, coincided with the June 18 national election, put his Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (center) and Liberal Opponent Lester Pearson (holding the lion) in the motley of a couple of Shakespearean comics. He didn't try to indicate the winner, which, to judge by Canada...
...artists, attracted by freedom to do what they like, are willing to work for less than their usual fees. Twice before, the same sponsor has been inundated with complimentary mail while sponsoring cultural programs the trade considered commercial dogs: The Play of the Week and the BBC series of Shakespearean histories titled An Age of Kings. "We believe that there is a strong demand for such entertainment," says Jersey Standard President M. J. Rathbone. "and anything we can do to help provide more of it is good business...