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Shylock as a stage character has been the subject of many various interpretations. For Fritz Leiber he was almost a tragic hero, while George Arliss played the role as a fawning and thoroughly wicked villain. In this latest production of "The Merchant of Venice" now playing at the Tremont, Mr. Maurice Moscovitch gives what seems to this reviewer to be the most intelligent estimation of the Jew of Venice that has been presented in recent years. Neither one extreme nor the other, Shylock, as Mr. Moscovitch portrays him, is a very complex character, a man who commands at once scorn...
...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 early...
...Fritz Leiber and the Chicago Civic-Shakespeare Society. During his second week in Manhattan, Fritz Leiber added an energetic Jaques (As You Like It) and a mellifluous, rousing Mark Antony (Julius Caesar) to the rôles played during the first week (TIME, April 7). In the part of King Lear he gave all he had, more than enough to suggest the magnitude of the play...
...FRITZ LEIBER-Sensible Shakespeare by Mr. Leiber and his Chicago repertory company...
...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...