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An American Festival
By JOHN BEAUFORT,
Drains Caiitl, The Christian
Betenee. Monitor,
iu
By
the
on time
the the
fdurt lights oo up
of
" h season of
Canada's Stratford Shakespearean
Festival, friends of the festival
are expected to have raised $OSQ,
000 toward Its permanent home.
Four months ago, the bold plan•
ners of the flourishing venture set
themselves and their fellow Can.
adiens the task of raising the
$994,000 needed for the building to
replace the festive but temporary
Big Tdp theater. in which the plays
have been acted thus far.
From the Maritime Provinces to
British Columbia, committees under.
Um national chairmanship of Uol.
M. C. G. Meigheu have been lip
pealing to Canadian generosity.
concern for cultural growth, and
national pride.
The appeals have not been made
'in vain. Gifts of every, size nave
been received, A Stratford Janitor
sent $2. A Peterborough school
class donated $10. The largest gift
so far, $100,000, came from the
J. P. Bickel' Foundation and will
be used for the new theater's gal.
levy.
According to Tom Patterson, who
sparked the festival, support for
the building fund drive has been
nationwide.
The Ontario Provincial Govern-
ment, which indicated its interest
with a modest $500 gift the first
season, has appropriated $100,000
toward the permanent theater. Th
rontonians have quadrupled their
donations this year over 1953•
Many business' concerns, includ-
ing a considerable number which
have never before given financial
;rapport to a cultural venture, are
among the long list of the building
fund's benefactors. This is charac•
teristic example of the unforeseen,
widely ranging, and galvanizing
effects of the lively and expanding
festival program on Canadian at-
titudes and thinking. -
Mr. Patterson is known, among •
other things, as the man whose
project has had more coverage in
the foreign press than any Canadi-
an news event since the Dionne
quintuplets.
The birth of Canada's Shakes-
peare Festival occurred on a hot
July evening in 1953. Alec Guin-
ness opened the festival with "Rich-
ard III," directed by Tyrone Guth-
rie, 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
phree plays: "Measure for Mea-
sure," "The Taming of the Shrew,"
and "Oedipus Rex," the last-men-
tioned representing a Guthrie de-
monstration that the Greeks could .
be handily accommodated on the,
(stage which Tanya Moisewitsch had
designed with the Elizabethans in
mind.
Last season, the festival offered
"The Merchant of Venice," "Julies
Caesar," and a revival of "Oedi-
pus." I Early this month, Or. Gude
rle completed the filming in color
of the Sophoclean tragedy with lite
Stratford company, The wovie,ver•
Mon .is Scheduled to be Introduced
this Sumpter, perhaps; at • the Edit] '
burgh leestival. )
With the exception of [953,. ivheit
it ran for five weeks, the festive:
has offered a ►line -week season
Nearly all the tent audit ori uw's
2,001) seats are filled at every per
form:wee. The seasonal attendance
average has never fallen below 91
'per cent of capacity, During the
first three years a total of 334,545
patrons from all parts of the Unit
ed States and Canada, not to mem
tion overseas visitors, paid more
than $1,000,000 to the ticket sellers
at the busy Stralforcl box office.
Art and theater exhibitions were
added in 1954. 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 Ur.
Guthrie's idea of launching a mu-
sic barge on the Avon — it shouiel
by all rights be drawn by several
white swans. But no one who has
watched the festival grow from its
brave beginnings will readily limit
its future possibilities.
Fur the 1956 season, however, the`
officials are contenting themselves
with such peripheral activities as
a theatrical exhibition arranged by
the Britisb theater historian, Rich-
ard Southern, an international film
festival, a premiere National Gel-
lery exhibition of works by Tchlet-
chev and Lesie Hurry ; and the sec-
ond annual Music Festival.
The Shakespearean plays, which
are still the thing at Stratford,
will be "HenryV" and "The Merry
Wives .of Windsor." Rehearsing um;
der elicltael Langham, the festiv-
al's new artistic director, is a com-
pany which includes Christopher
Pluinmer, Douglas Campbell, Eric
House, William Hutt,' and Eleanor
Stuart, most of whom are Stratford
veterans.
. If, as they have a way of do-
ing, present Stratford plans ma-
terialize, this will be the last sea-
son of Shakespeare under canvas
in the theatrical capital on the
shores of Canada's Avon. Visitors
who have grown agreeably accus-
tomed 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 Rounthwaite & Fairfield (count
them also among Stratford festival
pioneers), the purpose is "to build
a permanent theater which pro-
vides the best possible facilities for
Shakespearean plays, which main-
gin
n6 decdsjive
strcn5t!; to qe,
onij moderation
3Wcsitc!arni.
Che -louse
Tarn PaurRic%ter
Seagram
.1'dtt who think of tomarrab practice moderation today
OUT AT THIRD—Bill Virdon, 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 festival; and which has no
unnecessary frills."
The building scheduled to rise In
time for 1057 rehearsals will be a
steel -frame structure, air-condi-
tioned to keep out the heat of at
south-western Ontario summer,
soundproofed to insulate the per
forntances against the noise of pass•
ing planes, trains, and A.von River
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 foundations, the bas-
ic plan of the present auditorium,
with a 684 -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 ac-
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 seml-Elizahe-
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 "Hen-
ry V" and "Oedipus Rex" at the
Edinburgh Festival.
But the vast gray spread of can-
vas — 33 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 the new build-
ing. With this service done, tent
master "Skip" Manley and his ex-
pert crew are scheduled to dis-
mantle, fold, and take the • tent
away. .
There will be sadness in Strat-
ford at the disappearance of the
temporary home in which brave he•
ginnings were made and bright
hopes realized. There will be joy
that the people of Canada have res-
ponded to make the second part of
a great dream come true. There
will be grateful pride in what has
been accomplished, and there will
be looking forward to horizon'
ahead.
Stratford will be ready for Phase
2: the building of a permanent
home for its of
Fes-
tival.
Mad Man Saved
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 mad?
But he seems harmless and he's
paying me well, so why should
I worry?"
But Louis Pastdur 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 on that September
day in 1860, Pasteur, then an
unknown scientist, had just
proved his germ theory of chs -
ease.
There was nothing partite
larly new 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
161 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 All Over
He 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 flaw 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
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purse.—Danish.
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—Russian.
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