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Memorial to Einstein

Here Mitchell Fields, U.S. sculptor, is shown finishing his
bust of Albert Einstein, the great scientisX who died in April.
The bust was unveiled at a memorial tribute to Einstein in New

York’s Carnegie Hall last week.

BOOKS

Canadian talent strengthens
national role of festival

TRATFORD has become a fami-
liar name all across Canada—
for more than the Shakespeare
Festival. This industrial town
in the heart of Ontario’s rich
dairy and farming district, now
the permanent home of a highly
successful Canadian cultural ven-
ture, the Stratford Shakespearean
Festival, also has a rich labor

history.

Whenthe doors of the largest
tent-theatre in the world open
in the beautiful park on the Avon
River on June 27 for the third
season, there will be guests from
every province of Canada, many
from the U.S. and several other
countries, among the first-night
audience. Motoring into Strat-
ford, vi.itors will pass by the
village of Shakespeare, a few
miles to the east of the town.
In the city itself they will see
many streets bearing the names

Honest novel deals with dilemma

AN honest and beautifully writ-
_ ten novel, Faithful Are the
Sarton deals
with the dilemma of the intellec-_
tual whose horizon is not bound-

ed. by. the-campus walls, and who
cares, deeply and passionately,
about mankind.

This is the story of the.suicide
of a Harvard English professor,
Edward Cavan, of the impact of
that death on his friends, even
those whose inconsistencies and
failures helped drive Cavan over
the brink.

There is Orlando Fosca, driven
from Mussolini’s Italy, now of
the Harvard faculty and at work
on a critique of intellectual
Italy under fascism.

There is Ivan Goldberg, who
believes that excellence in scfol-
arship is enough, and whose re-
fusal to head a committee to
protest the firing of an economics
professor from a Midwestern
university because he campaign-
ed for Henry Wallace for presi-
dent is one of the last straws
which breaks Cavan’s faith in
his fellowmen.

‘There is Damon Phillips,
physics professor, who breaks
a long record of militant liberal-
ism to sponsor a motion that the
Boston Chapter of the Civil Lib-
erties Union certify to the na-
tional board that all its members
are non-Communists, thereby
taking a fatal step away from
liberal principles to the enemy’s
tactics.

There is Grace Kimlock, the
70-year-old embodiment of un-
flinching belief that freedom
and free thought are inseparable.
And there is the graduate stud-
ent George Hastings who honors
Cavan and yet shrinks back from
hig glimpse of his _ teacher’s
loneliness and desperation.

Miss Sarton has created a
group of characters who are
three-dimensional, and who, with
all their weaknesses and contra-
dictions and vacillations, live

and grow. In beautiful prose and
crisp, convincing dialogue she
has drawn a sector of the uni-

versity community in a time. of |

crisis and thheart-searching.

One may question whether she
succeeds in probing to the heart
of Cavan’s problem and tragedy

end particularly one, may ques-

tion her use of Cavan’s conser-
yative sister, Isabel, as the
medium through which much of
the’ story is told. But she cer-
tainly has not shirked pointing
cut the impact of hesitation and

surrender in the realm of free
thought and expression on intel-
lectuals today.

503 se a

The strength of Faithful Are
the Wounds is that despite the
frustration of his life and the viol-
ence of his death, it shows Cavan
the man not to have been wasted
for from his life, and his death,
people learn and are strengthen-
ed.

“No man is an Iland, intire of
itself; every man is a piece of
the Continent, a part of the
maine ... therefore never sent
to know for whom the bell tolls,
it tolls for thee,’ intones the
minister at Cavan’s funeral ser-
vice.

“In the essence of his belief
the was right and many of us
were wrong,” Phillips tells the
inquisitors of the Congressional
Investigating Committee, with
the sword of contempt hanging
over his heart.

“That belief was that the in-
tellectual must stand on the
frontier of ‘freedom of thought,
especially in such times as these
when that. frontier is being nar-
rowed down every day... .” |

It is a fitting climax to a novel
which is a rousing challenge to
other, writers, and most satisfy-
ing reading.

BETTY FELDMAN

of intellectual in U.S. today

UN Children’s Fund

World unity

‘UN flag

U.N. stamps

Just published by Ryerson,
The Postage Stamps and Postal
History of the UN, by Douglas
Patrick, a member of the Cana-
dian Philatelic Society, tells the
story of United Nations postage
stamps and the various activities
the stamps are designed to pub-
licize. Above are shown some of
the UN stamps.

of Shakespearean places and char-
acters.

The story of the Shakespearean
Festival is one of vision and faith
in Canada and its cultural forces.

From a small beginning con-
ceived of by Tom Patterson, the
originator of the idea, and a
group of Stratford men and wo-
men, the festival grew in three
years to an event of world re-
nown. The 1953 performances
were seen by 68,600 people, 40

percent of whom were from the.

US.; the 1954
125,155
with 80 percent of the audience
Canadian.

season counted

For this year’s nine-week seas-
on three productions have been
chosen: Julius Caesar, Merchant
of Venice and Oedipus
Thirteen performances have al-
ready been sold out. Tickets for
all other nights and afternoon
shows are in great demand.

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This season will also see Cana-
dian talent playing its rightful
role, strengthening the national
character of the Stratford ven-
ture.

During the first two years, the
directors relied on
“stars” from the U.S. and Britain.
Alec Guinness, James Mason and
others were heavily ‘counted on
in the past as “drawing cards.”

Experience showed however,
that it was the Canadian artists
who really turned in the most
creditable performances and
were acclaimed in the press and
by the audiences. It was Fran-
ces Hyland, Lloyd Bochner, Bar-
bara Chilcott, Toby Robins and
the other young Canadian actors,
not the. imported. Hollywood
“star” James Mason, who did the
best work last year.

With the exception of Frederic
Valk, the Czech actor who will
play Shylock in Merchant of
Venice, most of the other leading
roles have been assigned to Can-
adiian actors.

Lorne Greene will play the im-
portant part of Brutus in Julius
Caesar as well as Morocco in the
Merchant of Venice; Frances
Hyland was assigned the role of
Portia; Charlotte Schrager, young
University of Toronto student,
was chosen to play Jessica, Shy-
lock’s daughter. Lloyd Bochner
will appear as Cassius in Julius
Caesar and Salario in the Mer-
chant of Venice. Donald Davis
has been given the role of Antony

coming to Stratford,

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imported»

and Barbara Chilcott that of.

Portia in Julius Caesar. A num-
ber of younger actors ‘will be
cast in secondary roles.

The performances will last till
August Die .

Tyrone ‘Guthrie will direct the
performances
Venice and Oedipus Rex and
Michael Langham will do’ Julius
Caesar. Tanya Moiseiwitsch,
whose stage and costume designs
at Stratford received general ac-
claim, will again design the cos-
tumes for all three 1955 produc-
tions. . ;

To assist in the development
of Canadian talent, the directors
of the festival have organized a
drama course, which proved high-
ly successful last year. The course
will be continued in conjunction
with the festival season. Stud-
ents will be given professional
instruction on all aspects of the

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 3, 1955 —

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FRANCES HYLAND

theatre and will also be prepare?
to act with the festival play
in years to come. i
For the first time this ye
music festival in consun eed
with the drama season has tion
organized. Under the pd
of Louis Applebaum, ge wil
composer, the music festival ©
present the Hart House 13
tra, conducted by Boyd Nee "tals
will feature a number of Té
as well as concerts. is
Guest artists will include
Marshall, Glenn Gould, :
der Schnieder and one the
program will also inclu sf
Festival Choristers, Prese”
special choral arrangemen
famous Canadian soloists. att
An exhibition of Canada ‘art
arranged by the Nationa ay:
Gallery will also be on disP :
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Stratford has a special ne
cance to Canada’s labor :
ment. i
Back in the thirties, low Pt
furniture workers, le ork:
late Fred Collins of the for
ers’ Unity League, str te
higher wages and deere they
ing conditions. For Ha: of
stood their ground 10 - from
the most bitter opposition ~~
the employers. ail-
When: igcel police error Ty
ed to break the strike, pro hep d
and federal authorities s
in. The Ontario Tory a
ment of Premier Henry Ke of
federal. Tory governmé Heel”
Prime Minister R. B. “Jt? 1 nks
Bennett sent troops 2 trike
to Stratford to be et Jid.
The workers rem ede
Support came from undrer oy
trade union locals in pe ed be
ince of Ontario. stra cep lass
came the symbol of work! ity.
determination and solidat strike
‘A few month after thé over™
in Stratford, the Henty . And
ment was routed in onte eanelt®
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