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'Julius Caesar' at Stratford

(EDITOR'S NOTE - The Shakesperean Festival of
Stratford, Ontario is currently playing its third
summer season. Three plays, the Yeats translation
of Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex', and Shakespeare's
'Julius Caesar' and 'The Merchant of Venice' are
featured. The Festival Committee hasalso inaugur-
ated a musical season. The Daily reviewers who
made the annual pilgrimage this last week end
report their impressions on this page.)
T E SWANS continue to float insouciantly
down the Avon: the old folk continue to
bowl energetically across the barbered lawns,
and the cannons continue to pop before each
jperformance of thy, plays. Stratford, 1955, has,
however, fallen a little short of Stratford, 1954
and 1953, and if as Shakespeare would have it,
the play's the thing, the supervisors of Canada's
gala summer festival might afford a modest
reappraisal of their objectives when next spring
comes around and they begin making plans for
1956.
The general set-up for this year's Festival
has approximated those of the two previous
ones. "Julius Caesar" and "The Merchant of
Venice" were selected for performance, re-
affirming the Festival's apparent preference for
the history plays and the "heavier" comedies.
Also, this year the Festival is repeating Yeats's
version of "Oedipus Rex," which last year
featured James Mason. Lacking a star name
this season, (Alec Guinness preceded Mason)
the Festival has proceeded with its solid nucleus
of the best actors in Canada and one can find
little fault either with the philosophy of using
home-grown products, nor with the practice of
it. The technical excellence, but even more
the plain pride of the performers in the skill
of these productions, is evident.
Weaknesses which are perhaps symptomatic
appeared, however, at least in the presentation
of "Caesar" and one is puzzled as to just how
many of them may be attributed to the play.
In the drama, there are really too many events
encompassed in too short a time. Caesar has
barely returned to Rome when the conspiracy is
born: Brutus, the hero of the play, is converted
to its purposes with great rapidity, and the
audience has hardly come to terms with the
characters before the deed is done. Immediately,
the climactic funeral addresses follow, the mob
is swayed, and the play peters out in assorted
Mr. Brown(
IN THE wretched history of the Department
of Justice under the direction of Herbert
Brownell there is no more discreditable or
revealing chapter than the indictment .of R.
Lawrence Siegel, his associate Hadassah Shap-
iro, the separate indictment of Martin Solow,
and the attempt to link "The Nation" to
these indictments through a process of tricky
legal legerdemain. The indictments confirm a
consistent impression of the department's be-
havior and strategy in this and similar cases,
namely, that the country's chief law-enforce-
ment agency is today dominated by the morbid
fear that its incompetence will at long last be
exposed to public scrutiny. No action of the
department more eloquently attests to the
dominance of this fear, and of the unfair tactics
it induces; than these indictments.
R. Lawrence Siegel, Hadassah Shapiro, and
Martin Solow are known to us as persons of
high moral integrity whose devotion to the
principles of American democracy, is unques-
tioned. Mr. Siegel is a former assistant attorney
general of the state of New York and a former
New York state special assistant attorney. He
has had a distinguished career at the New York
Bar for the last twenty years. His reputation

and abundant violences, battles, and suicides.
In spite of the fact that it has at least four
major characters, it is one of the shortest of
the "history" plays and thus is unable properly
to develop any one of them.
In falling victim to most of the play's short-
comings, the Stratford production overplayed
perhaps just what they should have under-
played. Because they are very good with battle
scenes and general action scenes, they kept the
play much too busy with waggling banners,
lush processions, and actors running up and
down stairs shouting lines that were either
indistinct or ridiculously loud. This Hellza-
poppin style (which was appropriate to last
year's "Taming of, the Shrew") left "Caesar,"
presumably a serious play, superficial and un-
interpreted. The important characters kept
pace by racing through their lines and Brutus
especially was left largely inexplicable until
the last act when the relatively unimportant
camp scenes were allowed to go andante.
Although the "candle-lit" scene is another of
Stratford's specialties, here the change of pace
was just too sudden and too late. Brutus, as a
character, had not enough to bring to this
interlude, unlike, for example, Richard III in
his final night camp scenes.
Perhaps because of the competition of all the
extras, the actors type-cast themselves. Caesar
was played as a dessicated egocentric. Antony
was an athlete at first, then abruptly a cor-
rupted Epicurean. The actor in Cassius's role
seemed to be playing not the conspirator, but
rather John Gielgud; it was hard, for instance,
to believe Caesar when he said of this Cassius:
"He hears no music." The minor characters,
who can afford typing, came off better. Douglas
Campbell, a Stratford veteran, played a nicely
sour Casca; and Donald Iarron was an inter-
esting stony Octavius.
The direction of the play was by Michael
Langham, a younger man than Tyrone Guthrie
who has done most of Stratford's directing in
the last three years. Mr. Langham has clearly
learned the difficult art of Guthrie's stagecraft,
and also how to use Tanya Moiseiwitsch's long-
serviceable set, but I was not satisfied that he
made "Julius Caesar" either tragedy or even
very coherent historical drama.
-William Wiegand


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STRATFORD FESTIVAL:
'The Merchant of Venice'

ellS Justice'

for loyalty to America, honesty, integrity, and
idealism is exceptionally high. He has partici-
-pated in many important civil-liberties cases
and has long been active in the American Civil
Liberties Union, bar association and community
affairs, besides serving as counsel for "The
Nation." Hadassah Shapiro is an attorney in
his office. Neither Mr. Siegel nor Miss Shapiro
make policy for "The Nation," nor are they in
any manner responsible for what it prints.
Mr. Siegel and Miss Shapiro have been indicted
under a series of counts charging them with
obstructing justice, conspirancy to obstruct
justice, and perjury in connection with the
government's investigation of Harvey Matusow.
The case has now passed from the grand
jury to the courts and is, therefore, "sub
justice." For this reason we cannot discuss in
detail the facts but we feel entirely justified
in making certain general comments . . . We
have every confidence that Mr. Siegel and
Miss Shapiro will be vindicated. Without com-
menting on the facts in detail, we venture the
general statement that nothing that either of
them did obstructed the investigation of the
Matusow case in the slightest degree.
-The Nation

LAST YEAR'S audiences at
Stratford, Ontario had the op-
portunity to watch the company
explore, in three plays, a full
dramatic range from unrelieved
tragedy to unmitigated farce. For
the current season, virtuosity as
well as excellence having been
proved, the directors contented
themselves on the comic side with
a splendid and non-controversial
production of The Merchant of
Venice.
Because the play so much de-
pends on a plot that has its "well-
made" aspects, its pace and coher-
ence would probably survive almost
any interpretation of Shylock.
Though the portrayal of a Fagin-
type might seem to us merely cruel
and prejudicial; and the reversal
therefore mechanical and mean-
ingless,' theinterest of the "ro-
mantic gamble" and its subsidiary
consequences would in any case
hold the stage.
Under Tyrone Guthrie's sensitive
direction, however, Shylock con-
veys not a type that invites ridicule
and contempt, but rather a char-
acter determined by the fact of
having as a Jew to fill a cultural
role bearing low social status. No
other role than that of usurer is
open to him, and should he be
deprived of that he would lose
what limited status he does have
and, so be reduced to a state of
complete alienation within the
Venetian society. As a usurer with
a commercial function, he at least
has the protection of the legal
system.
The production builds on this
conception to the point at the
end of the trial scene when Shy-
lock cries, "You take my life?
When you do take the means
whereby I live." The extremity of
his social position < is then fully
clear, so clear indeed that even
his previous vengefulness hardly
seems to justify the penalty press-
ed upon him. The mercy shown
him comes as a great relief, dissi-
pating a burden of . feeling that
would otherwise cloud the pleasure

and lightheartedness of the final
scenes.
To the solid satisfaction of dra-
matic intelligibility, Guthrie also
adds the theatrical brilliance for
which the Festival is by now well-
known. When the huge Prince of
Morocco arrives to woo Portia, at-
tired in a magnificent white robe
and turban and flashing a scimitar
with fearful abandon, our before-
hand knowledge of which casket he
is to choose does nothing to lessen
a thoroughly suspenseful interest
in his every word and gesture.,In
contrast, the Prince of Arragon's
scene is played with broad and
mocking humor.
Neither of these treatments ex-
hausts the limits of Guthrie's in-
genuity. For Bassanio's choice
scene, he saves a beautiful and
slow musical masque movement.
The stylish formality of each of
these wooing scenes emphasizes
the conventionalized asppets of
love and simultaneously imple-
ments the connection with an
equally conventionalized legal and
fiscal practice. Yet, because of the
lyric expression of the masque, we
are still able to give credence to the
sincerity of Portia's and Bassanio's
love. Too much cannot be said for
a director who can accomplish so
much dramatically with such econ-
omy.
Guthrie, of course, has the sup-
port of an excellent company.
Frederick Valk, a Czech who play-
ed Shylock for the Old Vic last
year, gives him a vigorous,
straightforward but. passionate
Jew, while Frances Hyland's Portia
is all warmth, beauty and womanly
wit. Bassanio, in the hands of
Donald Harron, deserves all his
good fortune. In fact, individually
and as a group, the whole company
plays with grace and understand-
ing.
A word about Tanya Moisei-
witsch's significant part in the suc-
cess of The Merchant of Venice.
Both she and Mr. Guthrie seem to
concur in their emphasis on the
varied expressiveness of human
lives and institutions as fundamen-

tal to the presentation of Shakes-
peare. Against the bare, adapt-
able stage she designed for the
Stratford Festival three years ago,
the costuming is, as one might ex-
pect, visually the whole show. But
though the use of color and line
is independently beautiful, it has
the primary effect of focussing
attention where it properly be-
longs, on the persons of the actors
and the meaning of the perform-
ances. Miss Moiseiwitsch evokes
every detail of characterization
and dramatic intention not specifi-
cally embodied in the text, and
accents those that are.
Whatever else the Stratford
company does by way of art, it at
least always celebrates its own
technical competence and concert-
edly intelligent imagination. That
these are qualities yet valued by
us, in spite of long exposure to the
inadequacies of mass media, is
indicated by the variety of Ameri-
can license plates to be seen in the
Stratford parking lots. Our' sense
of proportion has not entirely dis-
appeared if the nation that would
Walk a mile for.a Camel is still
willing to drive hundreds for good
theater.
--Ruth Misheloff
ANOTHER step has been taken
in what seems sure to be a
long drawn out but very definite
movement toward restoring some
balance in general administration
of the civil liberties of American
citizens. Under the fear of domes-
tic Communism-some of it jus-
tified-some not - we have gone
through five years or more when
administrative rulings, legislation,
and Congressional investigations
were all in one direction: toward
the severest kind of control and
penalizing of individuals and
groups deemed, under various in-
terpretations of the word, to be
subversive. There is no question
that some results justified some of
these processes; no question, ei-
ther, that some of them went too
far, injured many persons and
groups of highly doubtful guilt.
-Eric Sevareid
In The Reporter

By DREW PEARSON
GENEVA-In any summary of
results of the Big Four con-
ference, two important things
stand out:
1. Prime Minister Anthony Ed-
en, who was responsible for calling
the conference, failed to be its
dominant leader. He lost out com-
pletely to the charm and the spon-
taneous, sometimes impetuous,
diplomacy of President Eisenhow-
er. More important he lost the bal-
ance-of-power position of an hon-
est broker between the USA and
the USSR which Winston Church-
ill so long occupied.
2. Eisenhower, with his dramatic
air-reconnaissance inspection plan,
reverted in principle to the Rus-
sian-American alliance w h i c h
Marshal Stalin proposed toward
the end of World War II and
which Roosevelt rejected.
Though they didn't say so pub-
licly, Ike's proposal scared the Bri-
tish half out of their wits. It also
so horrified the German observers
here that they contacted Chancel-
lor Konrad Adenauer the night af-
ter Ike's air-inspection speech to
warn against Germany's being left
out in the cold by Russian-Ameri-
can friendship and that Adenauer
himself had better ,do some deal-
ing on the side with Russia.
For President Eisenhower, in
launching his dramatic air-in-
spection plan, had deliberately ig-
nored the French and British and
proposed that Russia and the Uni-
ted States, in effect, guarantee the
peace of the world.
BLUNT REASONING
TOWARD THE end of World
War II 'Stalin proposed to
Roosevelt that their two countries
form an alliance and literally di-
vide up the world between them.
Stalin's blunt reasoning was that
there were only two strong powers
left in the world-Russia and the
United States. Therefore, if they
agreed to dominate the world, they
could run it their own way and
keep the peace.
Around Roosevelt were advisers
who leaned toward accepting Sta-
lin's idea, among them Harry Hop-
kins and Ambassador Joseph Da-
vies. They believed the United
States should be realistic, that the
might of the British Empire was
waning, and if the United States
worked out an alliance with Rus-
sia the peace of the world would
be guaranteed for many years.
Averell Harriman and Jimmy
Forrestal were opposed to Stalin's
plan, but its most vigorous oppo-
nent was Winston Churchill who,
all during the war, had needled
Roosevelt against Russia. Roose-
velt, in the end, vetoed the Stalin
plan and adopted the collective
security of the United Nations
which included all the Allies plus
the smaller nations.
However, Roosevelt suggested
that Stalin and Churchill might
agree. on certain areas and a di-
vision of the Balkans was actually
Wvorked out at Teheran between
Stalin and Churchill whereby Rus-
sia took into its sphere of influ-
ence Rmania and Bulgaria, with
Britain taking over Greece and
Yugoslavia. Stalin even advised
Churchill that the man who really
'ontrolled Yugoslavia was Tito
and it was this deal at Teheran
that caused the United States and
Britain to confound the world by
deserting Draja Mikailovitch for
Tito.
Growing irritations toward the
end of the war finally disrupted.
this agreement and many diplo-
matic observers believe it was Sta-
lin's suspicion of Roosevelt's re-
fusal to form an alliance that con-
tributed heavily to the bitterness
that erupted around V-E Day. Sta-
lin's suspicious asiatic reasoning
led him to the conclusion that, if

the United States wouldn't form
an alliance for world spheres of
influence, then it must automatic-
ally seek to disrupt Russian
spheres.
President Eisenhower hadn't the
slightest thought of forming any

Russian alliance when he made
his air-inspection proposal at Ge-
neva. He believed the two most
powerful nations which hold the
world's peace in the palms of their
hands should get together to keep
the pence. Nevertheless, his pro-
posal, plus the new personal
friendships formed by Ike with
the Russians, caused a lot of worry
among the Allied diplomats who
believe in divide and rule.
IKE HIS OWN BROKER
IT WAS Eden, worried over win-
ning the British election and
achieving his great ambition to be
Prime Minister of England, who
finally persuaded Dulles last April
to consent to the Big Four meet-
ing. But it was the same Eden
who took a back seat completely
during the conference he inspired.
It was shortly after Roosevelt's
death that Churchill came to Ful-
ton, Missouri, in 1946 and, on the
same platform with President Tru-
man, launched a bitter denuncia-
tion of Russia. That speech mark-
ed an important period in power
politics. Before it, under Roose-
velt, the United States held the
balance of power and played Rus-
sia off against Britain. After that
speech, Britain held the balance
of power and has been playing
the United States off against Rus-
sia.
And, having forgotten his own
bitter attack on Russia at Fulton,
Churchill for three years has been
urging Eisenhower to attend a
Big Four conference to patch up
the West's friendship with Russia.
Churchill, once the attacker and
provocateur, had become peace-
maker.
But when that long-awaited con-
ference was held here, Anthony
Eden lost out in his role of hon-
est broker. Eisenhower stepped
forward jo do his own negotiating
and to handle his own brokerage
business for international peace.
It looks like the United States will
hold the balance of power from
now on.
SECRETARY OF State Dulles
has cabled Washington that
the Russia show "no disposi-
tion" at th secret Big Four ses-
sions to unify Germany, though
the Soviet delegation, itself, may
be split on the question.
The Russians are paying only
"lip service" to the problem of
German unification, Dulles claims,
adding that Soviet Premier Niko-
lai Bulganin and Communist Par-
ty Chief Nikita Khrushchev ap-
pear less stubborn about it than
Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molo-
tov.
The Russians are completely
evasive in discussing the German
issue behind closed doors, Dulles
reports. He believes their strategy
is to weaken West Germany's
bonds with the West.
Except for the German question,
however, Dulles is sending home
cheerful, even enthusiastic, cables.
The man who came to Genev as
Mr. Gloom of the American dele-
gation confesses to a Soviet at-
tempt to create a friendly atmos-
phere.Bulganin and Khrushchev
particularly seem anxious to fra-
ternize, Dulles reports.
He tells in his cables how Bul-
ganin recalled meeting him in 19-
47, how even the dour Molotov
toasted Dulles personally and
touched glasses with him. More
significant, Bulganin omitted from
his prepared speech several anti-
American passages, including ref-
erences to the Far East and Red
China.
The Secretary of State theorizes
that the Soviet hierarchy is com-
peting, in a way, with the late dic-
tator Stalin's leadership. The new
Russian bosses want to assert their

own leadership by making chang-
es and improving relations with
other nations at least on the sur-
face, Dulles suggests. This is evi-
dent, he says, in the personal con-
tacts they are making. They have
shown a strong inclination to
handle thorny problems on a per-
sonal basis.
Dulles' hopes were punctured
somewhat by the Soviet attitude
on Germany and by a return to
their original insistence on scrap-
ping the Western NATO alliance-
stands which the Russians took
behind closed doors.
The Secretary feels, however,
that the Russians will lower the
iron curtain and permit a freer
interchange of visitors and infor-
mation. This is an important step
toward lasting peace.
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Music at Stratford

THE MASTERMINDS at Stratford hope to
to build this pretty Ontario town into a
north American artistic Mecca by adding opera,
ballet, and concert performances to its original
core of drama. The first step was taken this
year by including a four week concert season
in the midst of the nine week drama season.
For their Festival Concert Hall, the adaptable
Canadians have converted an armory alongside
the picturesque Avon River. The hail is slightly
larger than a good-sized high school gymnas-
ium, with the bandstand located where the
basketball scorer's bench would be, instead of
at the end. The audience is assembled around
the stand, somewhat in the manner of our
Rackham lecture hall. Some measures have
been taken to better the hall's acoustics, such
as adding an artificial ceiling, and providing the
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stage with a corrugated back-drop, and the
result was quite successful. However, the stage
is quite small and the hall so makeshift that'
it would be necessary for an entirely new or
completely revamped structure to be built to
handle any sort of large scale offering.
The Stratfordians have . assembled for their
first concert season a distinguished list of
performers, including Elizabeth Schwartzkopf,
AkseldSchiotz,ILois Marshall, Alexander
Schneider, and Isaac Stern. The feature pro-
duction is a weekly performance of Stravinsky's
A Soldier's Tale.
Unfortunately for our group of Ann Arbor
Stratford devotees, the concert performed Sat-
urday evening was far below the high artistic
standard attained in the nearby dramatic offer-
ings. Four of Bach's Brandenberg Concerti were
performed by the Hart House Orchestra, under
Boyd Neel's baton. The orchestra, recently
formed by some two dozen Canadian musicians,
chiefly from Toronto, is an uninspired group of
journeymen musicians. The soloists, in par-
ticular, failed to show any signs of the brilliance
required to make a performance of the Bran-
denburgs as thrilling as it might be.
In a few of the tutti sections the orchestra
played well together, but only the third con-
certo, for string ensemble, met with any degree

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Mrs. Foy, before her early death,
is played by Milly Vitale. It is
probably not Miss itale's fault,
but the role never climbs beyond
that played by so many. wives of
so many musical biographical he-
roes. She is understanding, long-
suffering, quiet, and almost-but
not quite-content to be a back-
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New Books
At the Library
Buck, Pearl S. - My Several'
Worlds. New York, John Day, 1954.
Dowdey, Clifford - The Land