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December 20, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 59 Critic Interviews Fritz Leiber, and Here Is Her Story By Rutheda L. Pretzel With his iron grey hair rumpled turbulently about his high forehead, and the reflection of a "spot" cutting the lean, strong lines of his profile from a patch of dark formed hv a curtain, Fritz Leiber stood in a corner of the staf!e of the Chicago Civic tl~eat 12 r and enthusiastically talked of the humanity of Shakespeare. He tugged at a S\H·et smelling, curved pipe and stared at the floor or off into the far ends of the stage " ·bile he told why Shakespeare ha s liYcd for 300 years and why he ought to liY c forever. "1 t' s his hu1~1anity ," sa id Mr .. Leiber in a \\·ell modulatl'd voice that tmnbl~d out the word s in sections, "it's the vitalit\· and the l~t~manit,· one find s i11 Shakespeare that ha s m.o rc surely kep t him alive than all\·thing d se ... that has kept him from being only a decoration Shakespeare is on the bookshcli. ,,.(1rth_y oi being a part o f us every da,·. for through him " ·e get a treatise on humanitv." ~r. Leiber pointed out that :)hakc~pcarc has e\·erything that the \\Titers of dctectin· plays, sex and problem plaYs han?. He shouldn't he read or acted as if his plan were a "relic of some forgotten writer," said ~~ r. Leiber. and the n0rmal. natural actiom of his drama s should be -played in a normal. natural \Yay. Shakespeare Liked Action And on the subject of action, ~[r. Leiber had much tn say. "Shakespeare would make a great scenario writer," he said. "fnr he always thought so thoroughh· nf the action. The story tells itself through pantomime, for eYcn· plav is crammed full of action. .. Jn spite of the marvelous poetry uf hi . \\·orks. ancl its fine quality, Shakespeare is still primaril ' a play,night, inr he was al\\'a YS thinking of the eye of the amlicnce." ln the action and in the speakin.Q;. Mr. Leibt.:r has looked at all of Shakespeare's plays \vith a fresh e\·e, hooting tradition to the four \\·inds if it interferes with a more natural expression. Mr. Leiber's compatl\' is presenting Shakespeare so that audiences are not reminded that Shakespeare· is a "high .. brow" or that he is to he tak en as a lesson. Get Experience By Acting Asked if he approved of schools that \\·ould teach voung actors how to act Shakespeare. · Mr. Leiber pulled at his pipe for a minute and then . ventured a "Yes .. providing the right person was at the head of such a school." At the present time he feels that the actor will get th e best experience in Shakespea··ean acting by being in a company that is actually p 1 a yin g Shakespeare. Through doing the actual work there is more chance of becoming thoroughly acquainted with it, he felt. After the 12 weeks of playing in Chicago are over, which wi11 be in February, M:r. Leiber and his company will go on tour for 12 weeks, returmng to Chicago in the fall. Next year the company may include a few of the classics in its repertoire. Frederick Schmidt, who is a senior at Dartmouth college, will arrive on Christmas eve to pass the remainder of the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar \V. Schmidt, 827 Elmwood avenu.e. The varsity basketball team, of which he is a member has been making a tour of several eastern colleges this week. -oM iss Caroline Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Roberts, 328 Warwick road, Kenilworth w·ill return to spend the holidays with her parents, on Friday of this week. 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