Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth season the Stratford Festival has a new director, Michael Langham, 36, of London's Old Vic, who took over early this year from Director Tyrone Guthrie. Guthrie and other founders of the festival, fearing that Canadian cultural development was being overwhelmed by U.S. influences,* hoped to make Stratford a distinctively Canadian theater. But new Director Langham detected a flaw in their approach: How could Canada claim Stratford as a national theater unless the country's French-speaking population was represented...
Henry V, the main Shakespeare work on this year's program, afforded an opportunity to experiment. Canadian-born Actor Christopher Plummer, who had a Broadway triumph as the Earl of Warwick in The Lark (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955), was cast in the title role. Opposite him, as the French King Charles VI, Langham put Gratien Gélinas, the ranking clown of French-Canadian musical revues. Members of Montreal's theatrical corps, schooled in the French acting tradition, were brought to Stratford to people the French scenes. The play was a solid hit, with Shakespeare's French...
...Such fears are not widely shared in Canada. A Gallup poll last week showed that only 27% of Canadian adults believe that U.S. cultural influence is too strong in Canada...
...glass manufacture, did so well that in World War II he headed up the 55-acre, Government-operated Research Enterprises (radar and optical firing equipment). Tall, balding, an unbending pillar of Toronto society, Phillips is already president of two corporations (Duplate Canada, Fiberglas Canada), board chairman of another two (Canadian Pittsburgh Industries, Argus Corp.), chairman of the board of governors, University of Toronto. C| Carlos E. Allen Jr., 51, was appointed $50,000 a year president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, succeeding Clifford Young, who retired earlier this year. His selection ended months of joint search by FRB Chairman...
...London. Ont. Canadian Physicist Austin D. Misener told a U.N. youth seminar: there are two kinds of forces in the modern world−those that divide people and those that unite them. Science, he said, unites: the churches divide. He was not speaking of Christianity, he added "but of the way churches operate, tending to separate nations, people and races...