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Mary Stuart (adapted from Friedrich Schiller's drama by Jean Stock Goldstone and John Reich) is a great 150-year-old German classic which, despite the appeal of its heroine to English-speaking nations, seldom turns up in their theaters. One reason may be the problem of translation; another, the assortment of plays about Mary Stuart-Swinburne's, Drinkwater's, Maxwell Anderson's-that are in English already. Finally, 150-year-old classics have a way of showing their...
...season British Director Tyrone Guthrie has offered a Mary Stuart that stresses, that highlights, that exults in its age. Guthrie's production is high-busted, brass-throated, old-style theater. Its smallest scene is a Big Scene; it tosses mere suicide into a scene shift. A sound playwright, Schiller begins virtually at the end-with the Queen of Scots' rash, stormy, ill-starred life behind her and the peers condemning her to death. The play itself, though aswirl with intrigue, assassination plots and lust-devoured deliverers, really turns on whether Mary's royal cousin Elizabeth will sign...
...that the lay public innocently supposes that this is the 'nature of the unity we seek,' and then cannot comprehend why we waste so much time 'negotiating' when we ought at once to fall on each other's necks and burst out together into Schiller's Hymn...
...howled: "Down with Shakespeare! Just one of Wellington's toadies!" Only six years later, "the atmosphere had completely changed." An artistic revolution had changed France from the last outpost of Classicism to a spearhead of Romanticism. Shakespeare was all the rage, closely followed by Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Schiller. France's poets, painters, sculptors and novelists all joined hands in this insurrection, but one and all acknowledged as their leader one of literary history's most spectacular figures-Victor-Marie Hugo...
...Smoking, already tied to lung cancer, picked up another morbid relation when Drs. Francis C. Lowell, William Franklin, Alan L. Michelson and Irving W. Schiller, all of Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, told a Boston meeting of the American Medical Association that they have discovered an association between smoking and obstructive pulmonary emphysema. In a study of 34 victims of emphysema- a swelling and rupture of the lung's tiny air sacs that can prove disabling or even fatal-the doctors discovered that 100% of the patients smoked, and that they smoked an average of twice as many "pack years" (packs...