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...supplies power to London, Birmingham and many another English city and of which the Earl of Birkenhead is chairman. In addition to his duties as utility organizer and promoter, Mr. Clarke has cultivated an interest in Shakespeare to the extent of financing the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society headed by Fritz Leiber and at present playing in Manhattan. The theatres equipment company has been interested chiefly in the manufacture of new cinema-projection equipment, controlling the patents covering Grandeur (oversize) pictures. The close (although not corporate) connection between Mr. Clarke, Mr Stuart and Mr. Otterson has been evident since the announcement...
...Fritz Leiber and the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society. There are two schools of thought about Shakespearean productions. One holds that unless their splendors approach perfection, it is better to stay home and read the plays. The other insists that the great Shakespearean characters were meant to be seen and heard, that anyone who resists their appearance in the flesh, even though that flesh be pocked with imperfections, can be no true fancier of the drama...
...Fritz Leiber's company is for the delectation of the tolerant second school. Mr. Leiber's settings and costumes often suggest a theatrical rummage sale; his supporting cast is apt to make up in exuberance what it lacks in finesse. But Mr. Leiber, with energy enough to play Hamlet, Macbeth and Shylock on successive nights, has also gusto enough to concentrate attention on himself, a worthy and gifted player. He sometimes skims his roles but never tortures them...
...Fritz Leiber was born in Chicago, acted in public school, stock, and the companies df Robert Mantell, Julia Marlowe, Ben Greet. For 25 years he has played Shakespeare up and down the nation. He is a trouper to the core-one of the few who resolutely keeps good dramatic company...
Bremen's innards were decorated in super-modernistic style by Fritz August Breuhaus, but Europa's interior is in a style of subdued modernism, product of Paul Ludwig Troost...