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Gramophone recording (7") which Columbia Records publicity department sent to radio stations to promote HAMLET (1964).
CBS radio broadcast. A heavily condensed version of As You Like It with its director, Margaret Webster as Rosalind. A long introductory narrative explains the plot.
Radio broadcast. Ray Collins reads from Hamlet including the entire ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy. To demonstrate the quality of older and newer microphones, the sound engineer switches microphones...
Ballet based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream choreographed by Ann Brodie and Adolfina Suarez-More and performed by the Columbia City Ballet.
Radio broadcast. A musical version of The Taming of the Shrew written especially for Columbia Workshop. Few of Shakespeare’s lines survive in the modern dialogue. Carleton Young and Nan Sunderland play...
Radio drama. In the preamble to a memory play about silk replacing beaver as a material for making hats, Kit Carson’s friend Doc mentions that his eyes are getting weak, which he blames on excessive...
Selections from the sonnets and the plays read by Edith Evans, John Gielgud, and Margaret Leighton and performed at Philharmonic Hall in New York City on March 15th and March 29th, 1964. Contents: Sonnets,...
The complete Columbia/Mercury recording of Orson Welles’ 1938 production of The Merchant of Venice. The 2 CD set also contains seven scenes from Macbeth with Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson.
Commercial audio recording of a condensed version of Shakespeare’s play starring Orson Welles in the title role and Fay Bainter as Lady Macbeth. Welles’ adaptation reduces the plays’ acts from five to...
Radio drama. A young woman tries to get her boyfriend to live in the big city with her. He tries to get her to settle down in their small town. She lists the horrors of staying, which include becoming a...
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