A Shakespeare Day Throwback

Today is Shakespeare Day, so I’m sharing this throwback photo of writers Reuben Canoy and Aida Rivera [Ford] onstage at Silliman in Dumaguete, as part of the cast of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It in 1949. [The two would become prime movers in the publication of Sands & Coral, which Rivera-Ford edited with Cesar Amigo. Canoy would do the iconic logo of the literary folio.] Rivera-Ford would write “The Chieftest Mourner” in 1949, which would become her most iconic, most anthologized short story. She would later move to Davao, where she would establish a school. Canoy would become a screenwriter/movie producer/radio personality, and also mayor of Cagayan de Oro City, where he would dominate Northern Mindanao politics for many years, especially as an advocate for federalism.