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University of Chicago has Nobel-prize-winning Physicist James Franck; Eduard Benes; Italy's famed Physicist Bruno Rossi and Novelist Giuseppe Borgese; distinguished Art Teacher Ulrich A. Middeldorf. At California Institute of Technology, German-born Dr. Spiro Kyropoulos is doing important research on oil; at University of California at...
In Washington, Patriot Rainer quickly took charge. She brought her own director, German-born Erwin Piscator ("The Belasco of Berlin"), from Manhattan.
Then she threw the Civic Theatre's name off the billing. During rehearsals she got pretty upstage, held long confabs with Piscator in shrill-voiced German, while the cast stood around wondering whether it was stage business or themselves she was talking about. She was finally asked to speak...
Case of Clyde Griffiths (by Erwin Piscator & Lena Goldschmidt; Group Theatre & Milton Shubert, producers). Thirty years ago an errant youth of Cortland, N.Y. named Chester Gillette took his sweetheart, Grace Brown, out in a rowboat, drowned her because Grace was pregnant and Chester wanted to marry a rich girl. For...
Erwin Piscator is best known as the onetime head of Berlin's great Volksbuehne (People's Theatre), which boasted the incredible total of 250,000 subscribers. A Communist, Piscator fled Germany when the Nazis took over, now carries on his broad theatrical experimentation in the U.S.S.R. Case of...