Evening star., 1938-10-09
81 the Associated Press.

WILLIAMSBURG. Va, Oct. "a
mild and scant-haired mathematician
says he has uncovered two brand-sew
Shakespeare plays-and if the vestry
OF Bruton Parish here will dig where
ne directs he hopes to find more data
on the great writings.
The new plays were not written by
William Shakespeare, declared DR..
Wallace McCook Cunningham today.
But neither, he says, were any of the
other "Shakespearean" plays.
Dr. Cunningham is an advocate of
the theory that Sir Francis Bacon
and other noblemen of Queen Eliza
beth's court wrote the plays long at
tributed to "the Bard of Avon"
DR.. Cunningham said he found the
two plays hidden in the text of we'll
known writings 800 odd years old.
BY using mysterious code which he
discovered, he asserts, he has pieced
together new meanings which make
unknown plays emerge from the IA
miliar pages.
COde declared Simple.
DR., Cunningham declared his code
is unlike others which Baconians have
tossed at an unbelieving world for
decades in trying to prove that Shakes
peare did not write the plays that
bear his name
And his code is so simple, he de-
clared, that "a person with a high
school education can confirm its
The two new plays, discovered with
the code, are--the doctor said-"great-
er than any yet recorded"
"If I haven't CODE" he laughed,
Il have mechanical means of turn
ing out literature equal or superior
to Shakespeare's own"
He said that in the last five years
he had decoded not only the plays
but 1000 or more" short statements,
some of them pure poetry, which
throw new light on events in Eliza
beth's time.
BY reading the material which au-
thors hid from the average reader
by code the blue-eyed, 57-year-old
bachelor contends he has learned
which members of the Bacon clique
wrote each play or part of a play in
the complete works of William
Hopes to Publish System.
Although the doctor would not dis
close his code system, he hopes to
publish it, He read aloud portions
of the hidden writings he claims to
have discovered. The language was
beautiful, and it seemed similar to
that in Shakespearean plays.
Il am an economist" he said SOL
emnly. DR.. Cunningham taught
finance and economics at the Uni
versity of Southern California, the
University of Pennsylvania and small
er schools before launching his Shakes
pearean study and moving to Glen
dale, Calf
II have classical training in Eng
ish that most students do not get
nowadays. But can't write like that
That's not my language-or that of
any person living"
Some OF the Well-thumbed white |
cards pulled from his huge calfskin
oriefcase related quite unconventional |
stories
These fellows were jokesters," he
said later, relating his theory of how
Bacon and other courtiers had used
as a dupe for publish
ng works they dared not claim dur
ng their time-at the same time using
. code to preserve the secret for later
generations.
Like House Of Cards.
"Shakespearean authorship" he
nused, "is like house of cards that
las been built on supposition, sup
,osition, supposition."
Most Shakespearean scholars, of
ourse, do not agree with this theory.
They are satisfied that the Bard of
AVON wrote Romeo and Juliet" "Mer-
hant of Venice" and the other dramas
7hich bear his name.
Where, they ask, would Bacon
tatesman, scientist, philosopher and
terary man In his own right-have
ound time to write Shakespeare's
1any volumes2 And they sdd face
lolsly: