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...Your story missed Schmidt's "Tiger Head" Ale. The rest of these people are late comers. Tiger Head was originally brewed in 1774 at the Robert Smith Ale Brewery in Philadelphia, and continues to be brewed today for ale consumers by C. Schmidt & Sons...
Still, despite its occasional weaknesses, the Loeb players present a remarkable production of one of Shakespeare's most unusual plays. Schmidt has taken an exceptional cast, thoughtful sets and costumes, and, at times, inspired lighting, and molded The Winter's Tale into a summer delight...
...Romance poses problems in production as well; it has two marked shifts in tone, skims blithely through time, and in the last act brings Hermione back from the dead. But such things hinder the Summer School Players only slightly. Under the direction of Paul Schmidt they present a Winter's Tale which manages the seasonal shifts and emotional polarities with general grace and case...
...surprisingly. Because of the abnormally swift passage of time, there is an understandable loss of continuity which accounts in part for the sense of slowness. But a welter of buccolic buffoonery only enhances the discontinuity which in a production of some length (running time is four hours) is regrettable. Schmidt might have cut the longish fourth act or at least dropped one of two dance sequences...
...from every major songbag of rural America--he sang Leadbelly in his dialect, Blind Lemon Jefferson's Black Snake Moan (as dirty a blues as could be if one listens twice, but which Jack pretends is as clean as an Ivory-washed babe), Cisco Houston, Woody Guthrie, Eric von Schmidt and a dozen other folk classics...