U AA$ TflSUNI, MeWford, Oregon, Thursday, July 31. 1938
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Shylock Presented
As (Egotistical Man
By Festival Actor
Since William Shakespeare's
"TheQflerchant. of Venice"
was first staged, there have
been many interpretations of
Shylock, the dominant char
Qacter in the play.
Interpretations have ranged
fromhe symbol of a race to
that of tragic figure,, to that
of a villain ' with whom the
audience could sympathize.
He is an individual, as in
dividual in his own right ,as
Richard III, Hnlet, Macbeth
and King Lear are in theirs.
Shylocks a man who is look
iigt ouf Shylock, and as
such isnderstandable and ap
pealing. '
Ag audience with recent
histyy af persecution of the
Jews still strong in mind, will
not find the part of Shylock
as cogtic $ one today as per
h$P was Shakespeare's in
tent. There are scenes in
whftii Shylock provokes
laughter, but (for the most
part the audience views him
with fcenousness.
tf4i4ral Kan
rnru La. cowmer, proauc-
ing director of the Festival,
for th seventh time last
nightGaresented his interpre-
tion of Shylock. Bowmer
and Director James Sandoe
attempted, and with a great
deal of success, to show Shy
loc ts n example of an
fegcttistieal man. But to make
n interrelation too narrow,
and cry it through, would
be imgp&ible since Shake
spea iimself gave Shylock
mgjiy facets o
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Development
Director Named'
Portland (UPD The Port
land Development. Commis
sion Wednesday named John
J3. Kenward, an architectural
(engineer, to be executive di
rector. Kenward, former planning
director at Santa Barbara,
Calif., will head the new
Commission's proposed urban
renewal of an 83-acre tract
south of the main downtown
core area into a business and
commercial showplace.
The Commission's first
work session Wednesday also
saw the appointment of Mrs.
Joy O'Brien as relocation di
rector. She is the wife of a
gortland attorney and a for-
" mer supervisor tor xne nica
ga Land Clearance Commis-
sion. The Portland Commis
sion will draw on Jpoth Fed-
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funds tOg rehabilitate the 55-
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Jrjffic Fatalities
Decjeasein1958
Chicago (UPD Traffic fa
tlities in the United States
showed a drop from vthe pre
vious year's figures for the
month of Junr, the National
Safety Council reported to
day. The six-month death total
of 16.240 was 7 per cent be
low the 13.510 figure for the
corresponding period last
yeaiGand wa the, lowest six
month toll since 1954.
Jfie brought a saving of
300 lives with a 19 per cent
drop from ,310 last year to
3.010 this year. June was the
18th ofgthe past 19 months to
show a decrease.
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Egotistical Shylock may be,
but the audience cannot help
feel he is a tragic figure; a
wronged individual represent
ing a wronged race. One can
not help but sympathize.
B o w m e r 's pronunciation,
his presentation of the famous
arguments as to the human
equalities of a Jew, his actions
and appearance, combine to
create the complex peronality
of the moneylender.
Centered Around Shylock
It is around Shylock, and
his dealings with the mer
chant, Antonio, that the play
is centered. But without
strong supporting roles, three
sets of lovers, the melancholy
merchant and his friends, the
personality of Shylock could
not be developed. Jerry Tur
ner serves well the part of the
merchant, Antonio.
Bassanio, the loyal friend
for whom Antonio bonds him
self, is portrayed by William
Nye, who presents the part of
Portia's suitor delightfully.
Friends of Antonio and Bas
sanio, Solanio, Salarino, Grati
ano and Lorenzo, are all
youthful parts, and Rudolf E.
Vest Jr., Charles A. Cook,
George Riddle and Keith Fow
ler present them with the
necessary youthful sponta
neity. Riddle, as Gratiano, does an
exceedingly good portrayal of
a nervous youth, often finger
ing his sash, especially toward
the play's end when Gratiano
and Bassanio find the rings
given them by their brides.
In Second Season
Margaret Vafiadis, in her
second season at the Festival,
pleasantly portrays Portia.
She has the maturity of a
young woman who has been
wooed by many a man yet
also has the young-in-heart
feeling which captures the
audience, and the man she
desires.
Nagle Jackson adds comedy
and brightens the play as the
part of Launcelot Gobbo, the
clown. He does a wonderful
job in presenting dialogue,
and seems natural in the part.
The scene in which Launcelot
Gobbo meets his father, Old
Gobbo, played by Michael
O'Sullivan, is a memorable
one. O'Sullivan is convincing
in his blindness.
Shirley Douglass, as Neris
sa, Portia's gentlewoman, pre
sents a fine performance of a
maid attracted to Gratiano,
and Ellen Kay is commend
able in the p.art of Jessica,
Shylock's daughter, who takes
some of her father's wealth
and flees to Lorenzo dressed
as a boy.
Well Staged Secies
The production contains
many well staged scenes,
among them the court scene
in which Shylock is prevented
from obtaining his bond; and
the scenes in which the Prince
of Morocco and the Prince of
Arragon open small caskets
for the hand of Portia.
Another impressive scene
is one in which Lorenzo and
Jessica are at Portia's estate
waiting her return; and last
night it was enhanced by a
bright moon. The only thing
to be desired would be more
volume in Fowler's presenta
tion of Lorenzo.
But by far the most impres
sive scenes were those in
which Shylock appeared. His
actions, voice, and costume
dominated the stage.
The production of "The
Merchant of Venice," one of
Shakespeare's more popular
plays at the Ashland theater,
was indeed a fine one. Im
pressive characterizations of
secondary roles were less no
ticeable only because of the
dominance of Shylock. But
without the over-all superior
acting, even the part of Shy
lock could not have been so
impressive.
"The Merchant" may prove
to be' the Festival's most
popular play this season. And
it well deserves its popu
larity. E.HA.
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A RIDE IN THE COUNTRY Specialist John Thomas, of
Steubenville, Ohio, has a soft drink and a ride on a don
key in bivouac area near the airport at Beirut', Lebanon.
RECUPERATING Actress Suzy Parker, her left arm still
in a sling, leaves hospital in New York, six weeks after
the tragic accident at St. Augustine, Fla., in which she
had both arms broken and her father was fatally injured.
Motorists Watch As Man Jumps
Sagamore, Mass. (UPD
Richard B. Bengtsson, 52,
stared for a moment at the
swirling waters 135 feet be
low the Sagamore Bridge,
then vaulted the guard railing
Centennial Attracts
European Countries
Portland (UPD Six Euro
pean countries sent word
Wednesday that they will par
ticipate in Oregon's exposi
tion and trade, fair.
James , McDonald, consul
for Great Britain, received
word from the six countries.
He said they would build and
maintain a joint exhibit cov
ering 6,000 square feet.
McDonald said he belieVed
it was the first time the coun
tries have combined in a sin
gle trade fair exhibit any
where in the world.
The countries are Great
Britain, West Germany, Italy,
France, Belgium and the
Netherlands.
and plunged downward.
The heavy traffic on the
bridge jolted to a halt. A
woman tourist screamed, then
fainted.
While some rushed to her
aid, several motorists put in
an urgent call to police who
arrived within minutes.
A Coast 'Guard crash boat
sped tip the Cape Cod Canal,
which is spanned by the
bridge, followed closely by a
U. S. Corps of Engineers craft.
They began to drag the wa
ters. Several minutes later,
Bengtsson reappeared on a
catwalk to which he had
jumped and looked upward
into a sea of worried faces.
Bengtsson, a bridge main
tenance worker, explained to
his audience and the police
that a beam beneath the
bridge was a nice private
place to change into his work
clothes.
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onds which are defined at
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Iraq Oil Fields Still Appear
Normal 2 Weeks After Revolt
By DANIEL F. GILMORE
United Presi International
Kirkuk, Iraq (UPD This is
where it all begins and this is
where it all may end some
day.
Here or near here is the
fabulous Kirkuk oil belt. Here
are a maze of coils, chimneys,
tank farms generators and
pumps all incredibly quiet
in their movement under the
fierce summer heat.
And from here spider out
the pipelines to the Mediterranean,-
across hundreds of
miles of desert.
A little more than 750,000
gallons of oil an hour are now
passing quietly through the
30-inch and two 16-inch ar
teries westward.
It goes at a pulsating 45
miles an hour, regenerated
when impetus lags by isolated
desert pumping stations with
names such as K2, K3.
United Nationals
Iraqis, Scotsmen, Britons,
Americans, French, Dutch and
many other nationalities
sweat to keep the oil moving.
When not outside in the
merciless sun they pore 'over
charts, graphs, analyses in the
blessed comfort of air-conditioned
offices.
It is not bad working for
the Iraq Petroleum company
inside. It's pretty rough out
side. I drove up through the "out
side" from Baghdad to see
how the revolution affected
this gold-mine of black oil. So
far, not a bit.
If anything, the IPC is in
creasing its production. Noth
ing has been touched and the
army is making sure that
nothing will be touched.
Supreme Automation
The big IPC plants lie just
north of Kirkuk which is a
sprawling oasis city of houses,
none more than two or three
stories.
The plants, sprawled over
U.S. Steel Hour Program
Called Bucket of Bilge
By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press International
Ne"' York (DPD CBS-TV's
"U.- S. Steel Hour" scraped
bottom Wednesday night with
a sudsy, soupy, droopy, drip
py bucket of bilge, "Climate
of Marriage."
I may have seen worse one
hour TV plays this season but
offhand I can't come up with
any competitors. "Climate of
Marriage" was one of those
things where a husband be
comes involved with a girl
Cooler Weather
Eases Logging Ban
Portland (UPD Cooler
temperatures' have eased re
strictions on logging in west
ern Oregon and Washington.
Eastern and Southern Ore
gon, however, are still re
stricted. Restrictions were lifted in
Raymond, Wash., and on a
part-time basis in the Port
Orchard, Shelton, Chehalis,
Kelso, Vancouver and Elbe
districts and in the Olympia
National forest. The order ex
tends through Thursday mid
night and loggers are to be
out of the areas by 1 p.m.
The logging shutdown was
continued for another 24
hours in the Deming, Sedro
Woolley, Sutan, North Bend
and Enumclaw districts and
in the Lewis river ranger dis
trict of Pinchot National for
est. Fire danger was considered
moderate in Northwest Ore
gon but continued high else
where in the state.
NEWS OFFICIAL DIES
New York (UPD Benjamin
Frischwasser, 75, secretary of
the board of directors of the
Jewish Daily Forward, Yiddish-language
newspaper, died
Wednesday.
and the husband's wife
cides to . . . fight ... for
her . . . man.
Sad Row of Ducks
All the cliches waddled out
like a sad little row of ducks.
Among them: the scene in
which the wife confronts the
other woman, the scene in
which the elderly parent
gives advice, the scene in
which the girl and the hus
band are surprised in their
love nest by the girl's naive
brother, the scene in which
the husband's boss tries to
straighten the whole rotten
mess out for the good of the
firm and for the good of good
old Sam, the hubby.
Wife Real Horror
The wife, incidentally, won
. her . . . fight. But I could
not understand why. She was
a real horror selfish, wasp
ish, loathsome, completely un
palatable. James Daly and Betsy Pal
mer, two attractive people,
labored long and hard in the
cause. Leora Dana, as the wife
suffered, suffered, suffered.
I was with her all the way.
many square miles, are as
quiet as the desert itself. It
is automation at its supreme.
Only the occasional deep hum
of a generator breaks the si
lence. ,
You climb up a big circular
glass dome and see nothing
but machinery and heat waves
distorting straight things into
corkscrews.
Yet down there are at least
1,000 persons working at any
one. time. And you never see
oil. '
Only the soft whine of a
generator and the noticeable
spinning of an axle indicate
motion.
Everything looked normal,
two weeks after the revolution.
Councillor's First
Words Are His Last
London (UPD Councillors
attending the St. Pancras bor
ough council meeting here
cheered when member George
Humberstone rose to address
the gathering.'
For the first time since he
was elected six , years ago
George was going to say some
thing. "Thank you for your en
couragement and sympathy
during my recent illness," he
said and sat down.
Then the 80-yerr-old coun
cillor slumped over his seat
dead.
WILL VISIT BONN
Bonn, Germany (UPD Ital
ian Premier Amintore, Fan
fani, currently in Washington
for talks with President Ei
senhower, will visit Bonn
Saturday, informed sources
said today.
Mother Oufdrjn
Son; Kills Hia
Sunnymesd, Calif.-PD A
23-year-old tirman ws acci
dentally shot to death Wed
nesday night 4y is mother
while they tried to "outdraw"
each other witi his .22 caliber
pistols, police reported
The dead man wgs identi
fied as Jams R. Clayton, at
tached to the 22nd A & E
Squadron at March Air Folce
Base. Sheriff's deputies Qid
Clayton lived off baft with
his mother, Mrs. Dorotly
Clayton, 45, 3t her hoge
here.
Mrs. Clayton told deputies
her son rarely kept the guns
loaded and that they both
"assumed" fljey were empty.
She said she pulled "the trig
ger twice and nothing hap
pened. The third time the gun
fired. . .
Air Defense Sector
Leader Announced
Portland (UPD The Air
Force today announced that
Col. Harold W. Scruggs has
been named deputy comman
der of the Portland Air De
fense sector. His headquarters
will be at Camp Adair near
Corvallis where an extensive
SAGE radar network is being
built.
The Air Force said the ap
pointment would be effective
Sept. 1. Work on the Adair
base has been temporarily
halted due to a statewide la
bor dispute in the construc
tion industry.
Commander of the SAGE
base is Lt. Col. Stocey Brown.
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