SHAKESPEARE PRIZE
AWARD TO JOHN MASEFIELD
(BrUlsb Official Wireless.) (Received October 22, 11 ajn.)
RUGBY, October 21
Mr. John Masefield has received notification from the Hamburg University that. he has been awarded the Shakespeare Prize for 1938. The telegram announcing the award contained an invitation to go to. Hamburg in June to accept the prize and lecture at the university. Mr. Masefield said that he would probably accept the invitation.
The Shakespeare Prize is one of six German prizes established by an anonymous Hamburg merchant in 1937 as an expression of gratitude for the Oxford Rhodes Scholarships awarded annually to German students. There are three prizes each of 3000 reichsmarks for young students, and also three other prizes of similar value for works of conspicuous merit in literature, music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. Last year, Dr. R. Vaughan Williams was awarded the first Shakespeare prize which is open to nationals of Britain, Holland, and the Scandinavian countries.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 9
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