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Richard II made a less reverberant opening flourish than did Henry IV in 1946. A step backward from Henry in English history, it is also a step or two downward in Shakespearean art. Yet since the Old Vic's current bill, unlike its earlier one, is all-Shakespearean,* this brilliant bit of early characterization, a sort of watercolorist's Hamlet, was not necessarily ill-chosen. It was a good taking-off point to soar from. And as proof of the Old Vic's feeling for tradition, its reaching for distinction, its high competence in production, Richard...
...Wizard Leonard Ross, II, who won $100,000 on The Big Surprise, is busy studying the price of coffee in the U.S. for a leading Brazilian businessman. Marine Corps Captain Dick McCutchen, who won the jackpot on both $64,000 shows, is putting the finishing touches on a cookbook. Shakespearean Scholar Redmond O'Hanlon, a Manhattan cop, will have a book of Shakespeare puns on the stand this spring. Alice Morgan, 78, who won $32,000, has completed The Investor's Road Map for Simon & Schuster. And Operatic Cobbler Gino Prato recently signed a second...
Demarest was 18 and majoring in Anglo-Saxon and pre-Shakespearean drama at Oxford's Magdalen College in 1942 when he decided to return to the U.S. and help fight the war. At Liverpool he joined the crew of a U.S. freighter bound for New York. His British training hardly prepared Mike for his rugged American shipmates, but he found them so fascinating and life at sea in wartime so exciting that he signed up with the Merchant Marine soon after he landed in New York. "By the time the war ended," he said, "I just couldn...
...Something extraordinarily promising has happened to the theater in Canada," wrote Critic Walter Kerr in New York's Herald Tribune. What particularly excited the admiration of Critic Kerr and the audiences was the adroit use of both French and English-speaking actors in this year's Shakespearean Festival at Stratford, Ont. Players drawn from bilingual Canada's two major language groups, acting in the plays of Shakespeare and Molière, are onstage together for the first time in a unique theatrical bill that reflects the nation's dual cultural origins...
...little touch of Harry in the night' worked wonders for British morale at Agincourt," said London's Daily Telegraph with Shakespearean whimsy. "The little touch of Harry S. Truman at his press conference yesterday was equally invigorating. It is no discourtesy to President Eisenhower to say that his former commander in chief, more than any other living American, embodies the sparkle and freshness, idealism and energy of the new world...