Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fritz Leiber and a good cast...
...Fritz Leiber did not muff his production of Othello. He played an earnest, straightforward Iago, plainly actuated by the motives of desire and jealousy as expounded in English 2, and with no suggestion of satanic depths to his character, except perhaps at the end where he maintained an admirably unrepentant and sinister smile. To him the Othello of Louis Leon Hall was an excellent foil. Mr. Hall is portly, with a cheerful rotund face, which, well darkened, brought out the whites of his rolling eyes, and gave him the jolly aspect of a Moor who has made up many...
From those who like their Shakespeare, as Mr. Benchley would say, the repertoire offered by Fritz Leiber has been a gift from heaven. Not only has the Bard been presented with more or less respect to the text but the prices have been on a scale proportionate to the student pocketbook. Seats in the orchestra are for once not entirely prohibitive...
...seeing a good play produced as such. If history fails us not, the Elizabethans went in order to see the play. The tendency to go for the aesthetic pleasure of seeing Jno Barry more is but a modern development. Hence, it must be said in all sincerity that Fritz Leiber as Petrnchio, and his accompanying cast in "The Taming of the Shrew" gave us just what we wanted...
...Shakespeare, as it has often been said, was essentially a showman," remarked Fritz Leiber to a CRIMSON interviewer the other day. "I believe that any play of Shakespeare's, even with the small amount of merely suggestive scenery used in his day, could be acted behind a soundproof glass curtain, and the audience would understand it as well or even better than the wordy actionless plays of today, which rely upon witty dialogue for their raison d'etre...