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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-06-21, Page 7An American View of Strafford's Festival By JOHN BEAUIrORT, Drama Critic, The Christian Science Monitor. By the time the lights go up In June on the fourth season of Canada's Stratford Shakespearean Festival, friends of the festival ane expected to have raised $(100, 800 toward .its permanent home, Lour months ago, the bold plan aers of the flourishing venture set themselves and their fellow Cate adinns the task of raising the $994,000 aeeded for the bulldiug W replace the Festive but. temporary Sig Top theater In whitIi the plays have been acted thus fur. From the Maritime Provinces ui British Oolnmblit, committees under the national ehah'matislrip of COI M. C. G. Meigheu hove been ate healing to Canadian generosity, concern for cultural growth, and national pride. The appeals have not been made ht vain. Gifts of every size have been received. A Stratrurd janitor sent $3. A Peterborough school class donated $10. Phe largest gift so far, $100,000, came from the J. P. Bickell Foundation and will be used for the flow theater's gal- lery. According to Tom Patterson, who ,parked the festival, support for rho building fund drive has been nationwide. The Ontario Provincial Govern. ment, which indicated Its interest with n modest $000 gift the first season, has appropriated $100,000 toward the permanent theater. To. rontouians have quadrupled their donations this year over 1053. Manny business concerns, includ- ing a considerable number which have never before given financial support to a cultural venture, are among the long list of the building fund's benefactors. This Is chem.. teristie example of the unforeseen, widely ranging, and galvanizing effects of the lively and expanding festival program on Canadian at certitudes and thinking. Mr. Patterson Is ltnowu, among ether things, as the mato whose project has had more coverage in the foreign press than any Canncli- an news event since the Dionne quintuplets. The birth of Canada's Shakes- peare Festival occurred on a hot July evening in 1003. Alec Guin- ness opened the festival with "Rich- ard III," directed by Tyrone Guth - vie, who served as artistic director for the first three seasons and re- tains his relationship as artistic consultant. "All's Well That Ends Well" completed the inaugural re- pertory. The second season comprised three plays: "Measure for Mea- sure," "The Taming of the Shrew," and "Oedipus Rex," the last -men- oned representing a Guthrie de- monstration that the Greeks could be handily accommodated on the stage which Tanya Moisewitsch had s designed with the Ellettbatbaft$ bi mind. Last sottsou, the festival offered "The Merchant of Venice," "Jullge enemy," and a revival of "then. pus." (Early this mouth, Ur, Guth - ole completed the filming in Miler of the Sophuelein tragedy with the • Stratford company, The movie vers 5104) is scheduled to be introduced this smuttier, perhaps at the Ellin burgh Festival.) With the exeeptiou of 11108, wbtm It ran for five weeks, the festival bas offered a nhre•week season. Nearly all the tent auditorium's 3,000 seats Etre filled at every per- formance. The seasonal attendance average has never Gallen below 01 per cent of capacity, During the first three years a total of 334,54f) patrons from all parts of the Unit ed States and Canada, not to men. tion overseas visitors, paid more than $1,000,000 to the ticket sellers et the busy Stretford box office. Art and theater exhihiti0us were added in 1904. Last season the board of governors inaugurated a Music Festival, which will be re- peated this year. Thus far, there has been no attempt to effect. Dr. GuLlu'ie's idea of launching a mu- sic barge 00 the Awn _ 0 shuntd by all rights be drawn by several while swans- But no ou0 who has watched the festival grow from its bra 0e beginnings o'iIl readily limit its future pussihi0iles. For the 1950 season, buweVer, the Wichita are contenting themselves with such peripheral activities as a theatrical exhibition arranged by the British theater historian, itieh- ard Southern, dB international filth festival, a premiere National Gal- lery exhibition 1 works by Tchlet cher :old Lesie flurry; and the sec- ond annual Music Festival. The Shakespearean plays, whit% are still the thing at Stratford, will be "IleuryV" and.•"Tile Merry Wives of Windsor," Rehearsing un- der Miclutel Langhans, the festiv- aPs new artistic director, is a com- pany which includes Christopher Plummer, Douglas Campbell, Erie House, William 11utt, and Eleanor Stuart, 4)1051 of whom are Stratford veterans. It, as they have a way of do- ing, present Stratford plans ma- terialize, this will he the last sea- son of Shakespeare under canvas in the theatrical capital on the shores of Canada's Mon. Visitors who have grown agreeably aeons - tented to the tent's blue canopy will probably applaud the plan to model the theater's permanent home somewhat along the lines of the temporary enclosure in which the project auspiciously began its career. As designed by the Toronto firm of Rounthwalte Fr Fairfield (count them also among Stratford festival pioneers), the purpose is "to build a permanent theater which pro- vides the best possible facllitles for Shakespearean plays, which main- (�T�,e Old Gray Mare Just Ain't 1 SIGHTS LIKE THIS may be vanishing from our American scene but Marion Embry, Fort Scott, Ilan., prefers his four -horse hitch to his modern tractor for seeding oats. Horses and mules on U.S. Farms are dwindling fast. The number was 27 million in 1018; by 1940 there were but 14 million; and today there's less than 5 million draft ani- mals in use, or one-fifth the number 30 years ago. ALSO COME AND GONE have been Cyrus McCor- inick'sflrst reaper and the binders that followed. This reaper did the work of five men. TODAY NEARLY A MILLION COM- BINES, large and small, have re= placed reapers and binders in Amer- ica's March of Farm Progress. TRACTORS HAVE MOVED IN to increase productive work a farmer can do in a day, the number skyrocketing from only 240,139 in 1920 to 4,377,700 now on farms. Today's farm wages are three times as high as they were in 1940, and the number of people to • do the work on farms has dropped onetourih in 15 year. OUT AT THIRD—Bill /irdon, Pirates outfielder, slides into third base on an attempted steal in the second inning of the Pitts- burgh -Chicago Cubs game at Chicago. Catcher Hobie Landrith threw to Eddie Miksis who made the putout, tains the spirit and features of the present L'estival; and wvhicb has no unnecessary frills" - The building scheduled to rise 111 time for 1007 rehearsals will be a steel -frame structtil'e, air-condi- tioned to steep out the heat of a south-western (lutario slimmer, soundproofed to insulate the per - Corntaltees against the noise of pass. ing planes, trains, and Avon Lover small craft. The exterior walls will be a combination. of masonry, red cedar, and glass, the roof will be of copper. The interior will merely develop on its existing foatndatious, the is- le plan of the present auditorium, with a 084 -seat balcony above the raked tiers of seats which overlook the platform stage. The purpose of the balcony is not to enlarge the seating capacity but to make for more comfortable spacing. The pillared stage will retain its , present features — including se cess from auditorium aisles and the below -stage area, Backstage will accommodate rehearsals and will eventually provide space for property and costume departments. Although the Strahford planners intend retaining the semi -Elizabe- than stage which is a firm feature of the Guthrie -inspired tradition, the new auditorium will be capable of transformation into something approaching a conventional pro- scenium -stage theater. On Aug. 18, the Stratford com• pany will give what will likely be its last public performance Of Shakespeare under the Big Top The company is scheduled to depart Immediately thereafter to act "llee- ry V" and "Oedipus Rex" at the Edinburgh Festival. But the vast gray spread of can- vas — 83 and a half tons of it — will not immediately sag and flat- ten to the ground. It will serve AS a protective shelter during the ear- ly stages of work on rho new build- hiservice done tent With this master Skip" Manley and his ex- pert crew are scheduled to dds- mantle, told, and tnke the tent away. There will be sadness in Strat- ford at tlse disappearance of the temporary home in which brave be• ginnings were made and bright hopes realized. There will be joy that the people of Canticle have res- ponded to make the second part of a great dream collie true. There will be grateful pride ht what has been accomplished, and there will be looking forwnrd to horizons nhend. Stratford will be ready for Phalle 2: the building of a permanent home far its Shakespearean Fes. ttvat. Mad Man Sived Led by an Alpine guide. a little Frenchman trudged up Mont Blanc, pulling a reluctant mule. As they picked their way across the glacier high above Chamonix, the guide thought to himself, "This man is quite madl But he seems harmless and he's paying me well, so why should I worry?" But Louis Pasteur was not mad—and it was due to his mule trek nearly a century ago that today we can drink a glass of milk in perfect safety For that mule was carrying twenty sealed glass flasks, each of 250 cubic centimetres capa- city, They contained different putrescible liquids, such as yeast -water, blood, beer, wine and milk. Above the glacier, Pasteur opened them for a moment, then quickly sealed them again with a spirit lamp. Examining them afterwards, he found that only one had "gone bad" - the one that had not been previously heated. Why did he have to climb over 15,000 feet to do this? Be- cause mountain. air is free from germs—and 04) that September day in 1800, Pasteur, then an unknown scientist, had just proved his germ theory of dis- ease. There was nothing `pari e - Early r.ew in treating milk by heat, People had boiled milk for decades to keep it from turning sour. But Pasteur and his fol- lowers showed that heating milk to certain temperatures for a certain time killed all harmful germs without affecting the taste or significantly reducing the food value. Nowadays we pasteurize milk by heating it to not less than 181 deg. F. for fifteen seconds or 145 to 150 degrees for thirty minutes. Strict regulations en- sure that the process is properly carried out. • "Without pasteurization," said Lord Verulam,- president of the National Baby Welfare Council, recently, "there could be no re- liable milk supply in our cities," Nevertheless, from the beginning people have objected to pasteur- ized milk, chiefly on the grounds that the taste or food value is affected, Does pasteurization affect the food value of milk? The only two nutrients generally admit- ted to be appreciably affected by heat are vitamins B and C, and in any case we mostly rely on other foods to supply us with these vitamins. Milk's valuable protein, for building healthy bo- dies, its calcium, for bones and teeth, its other minerals, and its riboflavin (Vitamin B2) are un- affected. The World health Organiza- tion went into the question ex- haustively a year or two ago. Their conclusions completely ex- onerated pastenrization from all charges of interfering with the food value. Some people say that it wrong to tamper in any way with na- ture's perfect food. They forget that when they pour milk in tea or coffee, or use it in cooking, they are "pasteurizing" milk far more drasically, than any dairy plant. Logically, such people should live on raw eggs, fish, or vegetables—rather than cook- ed. What are the positive benefits of pasteurization? They can truly be described as miraculous. If you are in your fifties, you can probably just remember the days before pasteurization in Britain. Take the year 1911. In the summer quarter of that year, infantile diarrhoea carried off babies at the rate of 203 per thousand. Raw cows' milk was blamed, By 1921, when some fifty per cent of London's milk - was pasteurized, the rate had fallen to ninety. Since then the sum- mer quarter has become the healthiest for children—and the mortality is still falling, Gems of Wisdom From AF Over I1,e that rides a tiger can never dismount. —Chinese proverb. A woman's tongue is three inches long, but it can kill a man six feet high.—Japanese. Who answers suddenly, knows little. —French: Love is like a diamond with a Haw in it; it is precious, but imperfect. --Persian. In the desert all men are enemies until they are proved to be friends.—Arabian. - Put your hand quickly . to . your hat and slowly to your purse.—Danish. Select your wife with your ears rather than with your eyes. —Russian. - Love your neighbour, but don't pull down the fence.— German. Don't play with eggs on a rock. --Nigerian. 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