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Big
audience
for the
Bard
FOR three and a half centuries, the loves, hates and intrigues of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" have reached audiences of varying sizes and types. But it's certain that no one audience, from Elizabethan Englishmen at the Globe Theatre opening night to twentieth century teen-agers sitting in American movie houses on instructions from their English teachers, has been as huge or as diverse as the one which tuned in on Theatre Guild On The Air's recent presentation. The size of the audience (fifteen million) was not the only record-breaker— its length (an hour-anda-half) marked it as the longest single presentation of Hamlet on the air in America. John Gielgud, who has sent the Dane's familiar soliloquies across many a stage, adapted the play from the five-and-a-half-hour script Shakespeare wrote to the ninety minutes (with commercials) in, reportedly, thirty minutes. Playing Ophelia to Mr. Gielgud's Hamlet was the piquantly pretty Dorothy McGuire. The Queen was lovely, long-haired Pamela Brown from England. Berry Kroeger, a magnificently villainous Claudius, reversed the role he plays on Young Dr. Malone — Sam Williams, the easy-going, middle-aged, unrequited lover of Anne Malone.
Theatre Guild On The Air is heard Sun., 8:30 P.M. EDT, NBC. Sponsored by U. S. Steel.
Soundman Wes
Conant fought a dual duel, shuffled his own feet during the HamletLaertes encounter. John Gielgud and Pamela Brown, here with Norman Brokenshire, juggled the centuries to play Shakespeare. They'd been appearing in a Broadway play with a medieval setting.
Undisturbed by reports of her death, Ophelia (Dorothy McGuire) listens to musical director Hal Levey's dirge.
TV or not TJ/5 the exciting events at Elsinore reach a record crowd
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