Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1929 — Page 10

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LEIBER PRESENTS A ONE DOLLAR HAMLET Shakespearian Actor Puts Into Effect Gallery Prices for First Floor and Draws Big House. BY WALTER li. HICKMAN. SHAKESPEARE'S "Hamlet” for $1 for the best seats. Sounds lfke a bargain saie. And so it is. It is Fritz Leiber working along the lines of the late Robert Mantell that gallery prices should prevail as near as possible on the first floor. And so now, Fritz Leiber, who was associated for many years with Mantell. sells tjie best seats in the house for a dollar and others at 50 and 75 cents, is doing something for the theater. When I recall some of the $3 a seat alleged Shakespeare, I appreciate wnat Leiber is doing for a dollar high. And the public is appreciating it, especially the young men and women who arc.studying Shakespeare in the schools, be-

cause there was a very large audience last'might at English’s when Leiber opened his three!-day engagement with "Hamlet,” to be followed

tonight with “Macbeth,” Saturday night with “The Taming of the Shrew” m modern dress. In other seasons I have gone to Cincinnati to see Leiber in his plays of Shakespeare. I have never agreed with his conception of Hamlet. That neither makes it a good or a bad Hamlet. Leiber does not impart to Hamlet the tradi-

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tional characteristics that so many of the best scholars have given Hamlet for years. Leiber approaches his Hamlet in the human w r ay. He makes him moody but not enough to sway Hamlet from his course of murder. To me Leiber’s Hamlet is a murderer who justified his death and who should be brutally blamed for killing Ophelia's father. Leiber reads his lines well, only once and a while slipping into the habit of not being clear. He places more dramatic importance on some scenes than other actors of the role. In all fairness to Leiber, we all have our pet Hamlet and just because I can not agree to all that Leiber does as Hamlet is not the slightest proof that he is wrong. I believe we our Hamlet’s by our favorite actor of Shakespeare. Os course at the prices charged, Leiber does not carry heavy sets but rather suggests his settings with drapes and lights. He seems to have gone in for pretty pictures, often too pretty for such a gloomy play. . Next to Leiber the outstanding work was done by Harriett Russell as Ophelia in her mad scene; the work of the first gravedigger, Robert Strauss and the Polonius of Philip Quin. The rest 'of the cast fair and so and so but remember the price being charged and you will

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BUTLER JOURNALISTIC FRATERNITY INITIATES S: in New Members Received Into Sigma Delta Chi. Butler chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity. initiated seven members Thursday night at the Columbia Club, Gerald Bowman, chapter president, presided. Will G. Ross of Frankfort Timse and George Harris, Butler faculty member, were made associate members. Active members taken in were: Thomas Rhodes, Joseph K. Shepherd and Richard Elrod, Indianapolis, Eugene Dawson, Mt. Vernon, and Robert Boyer, Columbus. Samuel P. Ochiltree spoke at a dinner which followed. MAILMEN AT MEETING Forty Carriers Attend Annual State Convention. Forty delegates from the Indianapolis branch, National Association of Letter Carriers, accompanied by the Indianapolis Postoffice band, went to New Albany today to attend the anpual convention of the Indiana State Association of LetterCarriers.

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