Iron County Record | 1922-02-03 | Page 3 | Steps from Navy to Stage

STEPS FROM NAVY TO STAGE Charles Hanford, Shakespearian Ac tor Who Served as Chief Yeoman, Returns to Footlights. To doff the robes of King Lear for the blue wool of the gob was no exertion exer-tion for ChaTlcs -aijr H. Uanford, one of "'vT America's foremost VJB Shakos pearean ftkljjL actors. Often he JjBRB rolo as Hamlet, jjmfffftjP "Now might I do vMUSiir Jt put." He did PiliPk It pat: 'he enlisted xF2 nnd 'becnuio chief ,'JSm yeoman In tho jr jfKm iHnnford didn't vbBHK consider this tragic. To give up n bright stage career for life on the ocean wave was, ns he put It, merely playing n rolo In a bigger drama than Shakespcnre ever thought of writing. Today he Is back on the Job, and necently staged "The Merchant of Venice" Ven-ice" for tho benefit of tho George Wnsh tlngton post of the American Legion the first post organized.