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Shopping Around Asia. Commonwealth members have been busy lining up new trading partners ever since Britain began to woo the Common Market. Japan is this year expected to replace Britain as Australia's best customer. New Zealand is shopping around Asia for new markets. The African Commonwealth nations appear more concerned about dealing with fellow Africans than with their white Commonwealth brothers. Though world exports have increased 46% in the past eight years, export trade among the Commonwealth nations has risen only 17%. Instead of hoping that Britain would return to the fold, most Commonwealth businessmen hoped that Britain...
Last season Shakespearean plays in German were performed 2,396 times on 112 stages in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. By contrast, J. W. von Goethe, the German Shakespeare (who is not terribly popular in England, the U.S., Australia, Canada or New Zealand), ran a poor second. In the three countries, 86 theaters staged his plays last season in 1,980 performances. The chief reason is A. W. von Schlegel, a German writer whose stunning translations of Shakespeare were completed in 1840. He was such an accomplished poet himself that people who know both languages often claim that the German versions...
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...success of the oldest and most unusual throwaway publication in the U.S. Most throwaways are just what the name implies, but surveys have shown that 89% of Broadway theatergoers take their Playbills home -and some 5,000 of them, including two customers in India and one in New Zealand, buy leather binders ($2.50 to $5) with which to preserve their copies. Most throwaways are hurled at the largest possible readership. Playbill has been interested only in Broadway theatergoers, of which there...