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...with a record number of bargain-hunting Americans in Europe, purse snatching, currency rip-offs and sophisticated new scams in some cities are growing as fast as the influx of visitors. Thieves are operating in formerly safe sites such as Paris' Latin Quarter and even idyllic Stratford-upon-Avon. Refunds for missing American Express Travelers Cheques have climbed by a significant margin. "The British don't want to advertise," says Dick Haegeley, chief of the Passport and Citizen's Unit at the American embassy in London, "but they should have a sign when you step off the plane: BEWARE...
...single stage. The company struts its chameleon craft, and the audience relishes a smorgasbord of theater history. Such are the pleasures of repertory, especially as executed by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. In its City home at the Barbican Theater in London, or on its country estate at Stratford-upon-Avon, the R.S.C. may perform as many as five plays a week. The company's tours of North America, though, have displayed only a fraction of its versatility: one play at a time. So the R.S.C.'s twin bill of Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano...
...gala affair. In the evenings, private bankers and government finance officials from 22 countries sipped champagne at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and sampled Viennese pastries in the gorgeous Longwood Gardens of the Pierre S. du Pont estate. But during the daytime closed-door meetings at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, the business was serious and the mood sober. Bankers were groping once again for solutions to the Latin American debt dilemma, which was threatening to take another turn for the worse...
...Stratford, Conn...
...unless they were twisted satirically), McKellen establishes two reference points between himself and Shakespeare. The first is that they were both helplessly smitten by the theater at tender ages. (He imagines a boyish Shake speare falling in behind a touring theatri cal company announcing its presence by parading down Stratford's main street; he recalls himself manipulating a cardboard Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons in a toy-theater production of Hamlet.) The second is that both grew up to be men of the working theater, practical poets striv ing for the memorable effect. Many of his selections...