Luther Harris Evans

Luther Harris Evans 1902-81, American librarian and political scientist, b. Bastrop co., Tex. After teaching political science at several universities, he became director of the Historical Records Survey under the Work Projects Administration (1935). In 1939 he was appointed director of the legislative reference service of the Library of Congress. Evans was chief assistant librarian of Congress from 1940 to 1945, when he was appointed Librarian. From 1953 to 1958 he was director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Evans was Director of International and Legal Collections, Columbia Univ. Libraries, from 1962 to 1967.

Adler, Luther (1903–84), actor. The son of Jacob Adler, he was born in New York, where he made his earliest appearance in Yiddish theatre, then acted with the Provincetown Players. His Broadway debut was as Leon Kantor, the young violinist with a self‐sacrificing mother, in Humoresque (1923). His other memorable performances include Sam, the law student, in Street Scene (1929); Don Fernando in Night Over Taos (1932); the vicious, ambitious Sam Ginsburg in Success Story (1932); Julian Vardaman, the radical professor, opposite Katharine Cornell in Alien Corn (1933); Dr. Gordon, the steadfast, middle‐aged physician, in Men in White (1933); and Moe Axelrod, the crippled war veteran, in Awake and Sing! (1935). His most important role may well have been Joe Bonaparte, who abandons a promising career as a violinist to make money as a fighter, in Golden Boy (1937). Many of his later assignments were as replacements to original stars, such as Joseph Schildkraut in Uncle Harry and Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof.

Evans, Maurice Herbert (1901–89), English actor, who made his first success as Raleigh in Sherriff's Journey's End (1928). He joined the Old Vic company in 1934 and was seen in a number of Shakespeare roles, including Hamlet in its entirety. Faced with the growing popularity of his contemporaries Gielgud, Richardson, and Olivier in London, he decided to go to America, and in 1935 made his first appearance on Broadway as Romeo to the Juliet of Katharine Cornell. He followed it during the next six years with a series of Shakespearian parts—Richard II, Hamlet, Falstaff, Malvolio, and Macbeth—directed by Margaret Webster, whom he was instrumental in introducing to the American stage. Becoming an American citizen in 1941, he entertained the troops during the war with his so-called GI Hamlet, a shortened version which was subsequently published. He also played a number of leading roles in Shaw: John Tanner in Man and Superman, Dick Dudgeon in The Devil's Disciple, King Magnus in The Apple Cart, and Captain Shotover in Heartbreak House. Among his other parts were Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's The Browning Version (1949), Hjalmar Ekdal in Ibsen's The Wild Duck (1951), and Tony Wendice in Frederick Knott's Dial ‘M’ for Murder (1952). He retired from the stage in 1967, but continued to appear in films and on television.