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AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn. Two comedies, As You Like It and Love's Labour's Lost, provide the light moments, while Richard II deals with weightier affairs of men and state. A dash of Shaw is offered in Androcles and the Lion. Through Sept...
...Note--"Richard II" plays through September 15 in alternation with "As You Like It," "Love's Labour's Lost," and Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion," which will be reviewed in subsequent issues. The drive to the picturesque grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances tend to begin promptly at 2:30 and 8:30 in the air-conditioned Festival Theatre. There are free facilities for picnickers on the premises...
...Lyndon Johnson thumbed through his Father's Day gift from Daughter Lynda Bird last week-F.D.R.'s old copy of Aesop's Fables-he might have come upon the tale about the dying lion. As the King of Beasts declined in strength, the story goes, the lesser animals trooped up to his cave, no longer subservient. The boar attacked him with his tusks; the bull gored him; even the ass, feeling quite safe, kicked up his heels and brayed. "Ah," sighed the failing King, "thus dies majesty." In the waning months of the Johnson Administration, TIME...
...tense times passed, he would fade again. Perhaps he can move back to center stage with travel and a series of talks on America's future. But even then, the old luster would be missing. He is a lame duck-or as Aesop would have it, a declining lion-and that condition is as inescapable...
...that he has changed the weather Lion and lamb can vote together...