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Ever since John Wilkes Booth proved unreliable America has been wary of itinerant Shakspearean actors. But Morris Carnovsky in his two years of touring in Lear since the original Stratford, Connecticut triumph, has reinstated their good name. Carnovsky, now a Brandeis faculty member, has mounted a Lear at the Spingold Theatre which is endued with the high finish and control that was often absent in the hastily-arranged touring performances...
...Spingold Theatre itself can produce only admiration--even were it not for the contrast with its predecessor, the makeshift theatre which dissatisfied drama students labelled "The Shell." Spingold is actually a drama center: it includes classrooms, offices for the Theatre Arts faculty, a dance studio, and two small theatres. The main stage theatre itself seats 750 people and has a fully automatic lighting board and excellent acoustics...
Brandeis' "professional" theatre set-up is being initiated by a cast which is literally and completely professional. The director, Morris Carnovsky, is a veteran of Broadway and Stratford, Connecticut, who now teaches at Brandeis. Of the three other programs scheduled at Spingold this year, one will be acted by a professional company, as will some of next year's shows. Whereas students emphasize that working with the professional cast has been a valuable experience, many fear that the new theatre will never offer students a chance to act; professionals never appeared in "The Shell." The review which appeared...
...Russia, urging socialites to play billiards. Promoter Jacobs and Press Agent Sonnenberg last week met five bridge players from France when they landed in Manhattan. Having beaten the masters of twelve nations at Brussels last June, the French team imagined that it and the Four Aces, winner of the Spingold, Vanderbilt and a dozen other U. S. trophies, would settle down in some metropolitan hotel room and play competitive bridge for a week or ten days...