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...King Lear. Erwin Piscator, 47, is the slight, grey son of a German Protestant family of Hessen-Nassau. He was drafted into the German Army during World War I, directed front-line theatricals. During the post-war social crisis he became a leading German radical impresario, a theatre figure almost as big as Max Reinhardt. He produced great plays frankly as propaganda, stressed all possible class-war angles, emphasized mass effects rather than individual actors. Determined to get his audiences "into" the plays, he abolished the curtain, had actors play in the aisles, loudspeakers sound from all parts...
...with a conservative production of Shaw's Saint Joan, feebly played by Cinemactress Luise Rainer. Currently Piscator is director of the 400-seat Studio Theatre of Manhattan's New School for Social Research, many of whose brilliant staff are political refugees. There last week he gave King Lear, first of a subscription series of plays...
Sidney C. Jackson, Jr. '43, Madison, Wis.; Kenneth D. Johanson '43, Everett, Wash.; Robert L. Judell '42, Milwaukee, Wis.; Harold Katz '43, Terre Haute, Ind.; William F. Ketchum '41, Evanston, III.; Frank R. Lacy, Jr. '43, Dubuque, Ia.; Newbold R. Landon '42, Baltimore, Md.; Walter J. Lear '43, Miami Beach, Fla.; Robert W. Levin '42, Portland, Ore.; Walter S. Long, Jr. '43, Mayfield, Ky.; Horace G. Lunt, 2d. '41, Denver, Colo.; James B. McCandless '42, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Charles M. McCroskey '43, Kansas City, Kans.; Donald F. McDonald '43, Davenport...
...hats and civilian clothes took their stand on Shakespeare Cliff, high above the English Channel, sat on camp stools and shooting sticks while British and German planes fought in the sky, amused themselves in slack intervals by giving names to Dover's roly-poly barrage balloons: King Lear, Lord Castlerose, Göring (painted with medals), Puddin...
Williams' mythical Lear came just in time to steam London up for a real Lear. Fortnight ago John Gielgud-who played Hamlet on Broadway in 1936-opened in Lear at London's historic, wrong-side-of-the-Thames Old Vic. The stanch Old Vicars-highbrows, artists, workingmen, eccentrics-in tweeds and business suits, did not make for a glittering first night. But because Gielgud was fighting for art in wartime, and because he played the mad, storm-swept, kingly old man with understanding, London's critics voted Lear the most important theatrical event since the war began...