GOOGIE WITHERS IN “HAMLET”
Successful Debut In Shakespeare
Playing Shakespeare for the first time in her long stage career, Googie Withers had one of the most exciting first nights recently when she appeared in “Hamlet” at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon. Yet she was not the star of the play. She was Gertrude, mother of Hamlet, and the critics praised her work almost unanimously. Miss Withers will have only one more first night before she leaves the English stage—in another of Shakespeare’s plays, “Much Ado About Nothing.” With her husband, John McCallum, Googie Withers will leave Britain soon, to live in Melbourne. John McCallum will go to Australia in July, but Googie will not be able to leave until the end of the Stratford season. Their two children will wait in England with their mother.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28619, 23 June 1958, Page 2
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