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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PASSING STRANGER-Richard Sale-Simon & Schuster ($2). A surgically garbed intruder goes gunning (successfully) for a Hollywood obstetrician in a hospital delivery room. Another obstetrician and a little detective named Daniel Webster follow a priceless lot of suspects from California to Manhattan, with more casualties and an unethical but astounding conclusion. Full of surprises, slick dialogue, strange people...
...scratch production, Othello had the shrewd, story-must-come-first direction that Margaret Webster also gave to the Maurice Evans Hamlet and Macbeth...
Robeson, who states that his production of this play is still far from prefect, and who is experimenting to work out new ideas all the time, was entertained as guest of honor, with Margaret, Webster, Jose Ferrer, Uta Hagen, and other members of the cast of "Othello" at a cocktail party given jointly by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Signet Society...
...party Robeson expressed his appreciation of the work done by the members of the cast. He mentioned Miss Webster, the director, who is well known on the stage for her work on Maurice Evans' Hamiet, and Ferrer, who, he said, did a very good job in the part of Iago, as being particularly helpful...
...these, the talent of the supporting cast completes the production. As the evil-spleened, ambitions Iago, Jose Ferrer mixed humor, cunning and villainy to portray this greatest of all stage villains, and was very successful in creating an Iago that could be both Othello's friend and enemy. Margaret Webster as Emilia was as competent an actress as she is a director, and turned in one of the best supporting performances of many seasons, while Uta Hagen was both charming and beautiful in the role of Desdemona...