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Show X-Ray Proves Shakespeare 'Portraits' j Pictures of Earl of Oxford in Disguise, Francis Bacon and the earl of Rutland. Discovery that world-famous . paintings of William Shakespeare Shake-speare really are "doctored" paintings of the earl of Oxford is no evidence that Shakespeare's plays were written by Oxford or anybody else. This is the opinion expressed Wednesday by Professor B. Roland Ro-land Lewis of the University of Utah English department and an authority on Shakespeare. ' "The only thing the X-ray will do is show that the paintings are spurious," Professor Lewis said. "It will show if a picture or manuscript is genuine or not genuine, but it's going pretty far to say that because a picture pic-ture was falsified, Shakespeare was not the author of his plays." NEW YORK, Dec. 13 W X-ray evidence that three world-famous world-famous paintings supposedly of William Shakespeare are of the earl of Oxford interpreted as corroborating the theory that the earl was the real author 6f "Shakespeare's" plays was reported re-ported today by Charles W. Barrell, photographic expert and prominent Shakespearean student. stu-dent. . , After three years' research and Investigation with X-ray and infra-red ray photography, Barren Bar-ren said in an article in the forthcoming issue of Scientific American magazine that he was convinced the portraits had been "doctored" soon after Oxford's death to conceal evidences of nobility and protect the family name from the contemporary stigma and connection with the theater. The pictures are the "Ashbourne" "Ash-bourne" portrait, of uncertain authorship. In the Folger Shake-apeare Shake-apeare library at Washington. D. C; the "Janssen" Shakespeare Shake-speare in the same gallery, and the "Hampton Court" Shakespeare Shake-speare in the British royal collection. col-lection. X-ray pictures of the "Ashbourne" "Ash-bourne" puritan whirls he mart in 1937, Barrell said, revealed under crude later additions to the picture: On a ring, the boar's head seal of the Oxford family. Hidden in the background, the crest of Oxford's wife's family, fam-ily, the Trenthams. A large ruffled collar, an appurtenance of nobility, which had been reduced to more bourgeois bour-geois dimensions, Forehead and hair strikingly similar to Oxford's, which hsd been disguised. In the background, the initials ini-tials of Cornelius Ketei, a great Dutch painter, to whom Barrell attributes the picjure. An Inscription, identifying the subject as Shakespeare, also was analyzed, he said, as a spurious addition. Barrell found similar alterations altera-tions In features and In noble dress In the other two pictures. The theory that the "Ashbourne" portrait had been doctored was sdvanced by M. H. Spielmann, English art expert, 30 years ago. Barrell is American secretary of the Shakespeare fellowship, a group espousing the "Oxfordi-sn" "Oxfordi-sn" theory of the authorship of groups attribute them to Sir |