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Matheson Lang (1933 Radio)

Series

Stars in Their Courses

Radio broadcast. Dramatic critic James Agate reviews Matheson Lang’s career on the English stage. The talk is illustrated with extracts from gramophone records featuring Lang as Othello in Act V ii.

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Carnival (1931 Film)

aka: Venetian Nights

Director

Herbert Wilcox

Feature film. A remake of the 1921 film also starring Matheson Lang (see separate entry). ‘This version boasts considerably better photography, but otherwise is very ponderous and plain. Nor did they go to...

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Carnival (1921 Film)

Director

Harley Knoles

Feature film. Simonetta, the wife of the celebrated Italian actor Silvio Steno, spends time with his best friend Scipione while Steno prepares for a production of Othello. Simonetta and Scipione go to the...

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Merchant of Venice, The (1916 Film)

Director

Walter West

Producer

Walter West

Feature film. A recording of a St James’s Theatre production with Matheson Lang as Shylock.

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Elizabeth (1977 Radio)

Series

Vivat Rex

Director

Martin Jenkins (2)

Producer

Martin Jenkins (2)

Last episode of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Henry...

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