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THE CHINA” MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1955.
When A Dead Man Earns
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£165,000 A Year
By JOHN BARBER
London ON'T be fooled by that Moscow "Hamlet. Don't glout because the first English actors ever to vialt Red Russia were cheered,
It was Shakespeare they paid to see. It's only another sign of the Boom In the Bard.
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Stratford-upon-Avon in • STRATFORD: splendid, great succes-financially, I sold grabbing, but style-less,
it artistically. OLD VIC: inventive, a person- nothing about Stratford has created no style alty, but Uving on charity. of Shakespeare production. I merely fishes in the waters
West End. It the create stors: it buys them.
of
docs not
Magnificent and spectacu- ar showa, coating £9,000 a time, are devised by the latest fashionable bruins brought down from London.
There 18 no "Stratford This year, Shakespearo has school" of acting. The verse become really BIG business, speaking is often disgraceful. That is bad for Shakespeare,
Look
London, the now 10 und bad for the theatre at large.
world capital of Shakespeare, with the Old Vic Theatre un bis Too many actors are tied up In the present Bard Boom. (Re-permanent home. It is entirely separate and independent from cently: Laurence Olivier, Vivien Stratford. The Old Vic success Leigh, John Gielgud, Katharine Hepburn, and + dozeri more.) Result: New dramausta ure star- starved,
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Too many plays in the vast field of English drama anubbed because the Bard dil Tot
write them. Result: the Oli Vic (almost our national theatre! ako gras Shakespeare and no one else.
All wronNE. And the turkt sufferer is Shakespeare himsel. The money bours int TO one has yet exploited
How that money does pour in. Only now con we tot up the 1956 Shakespeure revenue. For now
the Just of the Mont prosperous season in the his tury of the Memorial Theatre, at Stratford-upon-Avon.
DOW
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and
PUT forward a plan. These two great theatres should work pool their resources and na one integrated whole. Con- sider who would beneft:-
• Both theatres. Stratford would share its wealth and its for superior Ideas of showman-- ship-its cunning devices for moking
the Bard fun even for Aniericans from the backwoods. The Old Vic would contribute vigour, authenticity.
The andlenrock. Productions began with the appointment at the two theatres could inter- three Fours ngu of Alfred travel and reach two different Francis, a bustness mun Liverpool.
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from publies.
DIG, talkative, soldierly Francis refers airily to the Bard
"Shakers," 12+2
he knows nothing of art
But there is an Old Vie style. sturk, noly, vigorous,
Above all, the Vie makes its own suLIN It trains them in school at Bristol, and in John Nevlile has developed a young TOVEL PI who ぐよい
only net: hordes of girls wall nightly for his autograph.
The Anancial plrfure is more drab. The Old Vic relies on a Government subsidy of £25,000
a year
It cannot spend more OWN there, star actor
£3,000 on a production, or more director Anthony Quayle than £45 a week for any actor. says: "Thila seuson's gross
Artists like Claire Bloom and
tuk-
Inga ure £105,000 an advance Virginia McKenna drift away.
of £18,000 on 1954.
tried
The theatre self (1 quote The Arta Counell) in "meanty sited, obsolete, inconvenient,"
The wardrobe is
enough
Loven
► The actors. The combine could tempt them away from Alms and TV with big two- theatre contracts—and double the number of parts.
The Old Vic pooh-poohs my plin. Says Francis: "We can manage in our own way, thank yuki. We've gol things richt here at last. A combine would be of no advantage."
Now for a surprise. I expected Stratford lo sit
smug on ite Not heap of gold and shub me.
Is interesteck at all. Stratford
There you will And
people who my:
the last 25 years, 120 theatres have closed, Six touring
Shakspeare companica have disappeared. So where are we to find new actors? How are they to train? How can we tempt them from Alms?"
The answer is
is to meet this crisis with organisation.
Bright, new actors could bc offered training, long contracts, und the finest roles on the stage.
Its shows, with pooled work- shops
and brains, would be more economic, more efcient. more varied.
Money would flow freely. Soon the Old Vie could re- Its theatre and become
build
words of Shakespeare
"More than a million people seals, but only to buy 370,000 got in to see the pinys. Garden, the stores at Напр For every customer who did, we stend. The theatre has not self-supporting. had to furn three away
sent (1,010) 10 be In the
and Is 50 restricted himself:---
Combine your hearts in one, full-scale production at a time.
your realms in one Here then are the two big With smiling plenty, and rivals in: the
Bard
fair prosperous days.
For seven months. Stratford auppressed all advertising. The place simply enulti not with more customers,
cop
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Party's coming election several near-millionaires. LawV- 4mong
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He believes yer Foster Dulles, the 67-year- palaces and pressure lobbies propaganda.
old
State Secretary of of Washington? It is the quite correctly-that the Foreign Affairs, and Lawyer slap that President Elsen- Democrats mean to exploit Herbert Brownell, 61-year-old hower, newly back at his the suspicion attaching to Attorney-General, are both very
who the contracta ad- wealthy men desk, has delivered in the Bome faces of his
drawing fat incomes from their vised "dollar-a-year
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PERHAPS
65-year-old CHARLES E. WIL had wealthy parents to give him
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as Cabinet officers, seveni were As Secretary of Defence a cushioned start in life. His millionaires.
every-
the United States Govern- A CASE in point is the ment, refusing to accept in much-publicised role of SON.
it is his job to decide on how family were big bankers in return anything more than dollar-a-year man Adolphe vast sums are to be spent on Boston, Weeks developed the The truth, of course, is that a token salary of a dollar a Wenzell as Government con- equipping not only the Amert- family business, added
other in American political lifo Before entering the there are millionaires year. The presidential wallop sultant on an electric power can forces but arming some of interests.
their allies as well.
Cabinet he was counted among where. On the left, on the right, takes the form of an order: contract while he was "con-
the most Influential industrial- and in the centre. "Business men serving nected with the corporation Wilson started as an electri- ists in the U.S. without, compensation shall which was arranging its clan at a salary of 18 cents an abide by the same high financing. standards of ethical conduct which are demanded of all Government officials."
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middle-class colonel he WDS when he first went to London It is to meet thle suspicion during the war. He has made that Eisenhower has issued that his war face-slap order to his dollar-a- good money from memolis,
year men.
Now does this galaxy・ of For the Democrats I have a wealth around Elsenhower give word of advice unpaid. the Demrocate any right to pro- I suggest that before they go test? As I see it, only in the too far in criticising the mil- eyes of those who don't mind lionaires in Ike's eye they would GEORGE M hearing a pot calling the kettlo do well, to remove, the Harri-
mans from their own. 05-year-old
In 1949 as head of General against rich men in the Gov- tle. The general public too The Democrats are intent
Motors, he was declared to be ernment, Ike'a toom gives him suspect it. to paint the Republicans as the highest paid company boss plenty of opportunity to exer- aires use their wealth to attain United States with a cine it. Nor is the President office and then their office to party of corrupt and in the
produce more wealth for of 680,000 dollars himself any longer the poor, themselves, selfish plutocrats imposing salary their own narrow economic (£200,000) a year. interests on the country. And this COBY income
supplemented by rich, AND the order then goes
Elsenhower's Cabinet It dividends from his ample in on to issue A whole self the Democrats mean to vestments. series of regulations in denounce on a class war- tended to ensure that fare basis as a Cabinet of dollar-a-year men serving millionaries. with the Government's De- fence Department shall not vast
mass of comfortably off NEXT comes abuse their position to proletarian voters, they hope, HUMPHREY secure financial advantages will be aroused to such a pitch Secretary of the Treasury. As
millionaires the industrialist, head of M. A. FOT just look ́at · Avenell for themselves or for the that Eisenhower's
Hanna and
tho Company, steel Harriman, will have to go
Suave and firms with which they are
mamifacturers, and other enter clegant New York Glovemor connected.
priser, he has built up a fortune whom the city's Democraile boss running into many millions of DeSaplo is doing his best to dollars.
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selling Doa little
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the band to ostatos éppenfend t 100 million, dollsaw of class they must be reminded to lows: (1) Millionaires Oveta. Rge of 15.
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to the community and and Education Office (themis By 20 he was a successful She managed them well And forcibly restrained from adventure with the Balkoti- realestate dealer. Then he when you've done with looking pollo (vaccine);(2) Millionaire took on selling oil and later at the smiling Harriman look at fraud.
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