European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse Rock w Roll riles by Anthony up staff writer at of Viet Catherine Lacey at Elizabeth Irene Worth plays the Schiller by Robert staff writer London famed old the worlds greatest shakespearian has launched its 45th annual season with a hit but surprisingly its not the seasons curtain Raiser is an old Continental favorite Mary Stuart by German dramatist Friedrich Schiller and it has been playing to parked since it the Schiller in a new translation by Stephen the Samp sumptuous treatment the old vie normally rom Rios for the and the net result it a magnificent the performances of Irene Worth As the lj1fated Mary Stuart and Catherine Lacey As Queen Elizabeth won the plaudits of end the Schiller play is the first no shakes parian work performed at i he old Vic a five except for guest productions it Shaws major Barbara and Crew to and Cleopatra in the second production Julius with the Thaier reverting to its tradition of a Shakespeare later productions of Maebeth and Ibsen ghosts Are although the old Vic today is associated almost exclusively with the the first Shakespeare season was not presented until almost a Century after the theater tint As the Royal in with a trial by fifteen years the name wan changed to Royal Victoria in Honor of the teen age girl then heiress to the throne the theater was taken Over by Emma a social who reopened it As the Royal Victoria Coffee music Hall in offering a purified entertainment and to intoxicating when miss cons in her Niece Lilian Baylis assumed control and her name was to become Synon Moug with the old in 1914 the old Vic company was formed the world knows it Organ action dedicated to presenting Shakespeare Between 1914 and 1923 no fewer than 36 of his plays were a feat that gave the theater the distinction of being the first to present the Complete Cycle of Shakespeare in world War the theater was badly bombed and the company had to first to the Victoria in Burnley and later to the new theater in it remained there until 1950 when it returned to its original in the old Vic company directors decided once More to present the first Folio Over a period of five the herculean task of producing 36 shakespearian plays started the Cycle was completed last hence the Schiller curtain Raiser in the worlds most celebrated training ground for shakespearian the old Vic has turned out such stage notables As the three actor knights John Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson Alec Richard Burton and Fay repertory at the old Mary Stuart and Julius Caesar on alternate Many the theater has Little space backstage and Only one full scale production at a Lime can be the wardrobe department is at one end of London and the props Are stored at the the repertory system benefits both Audi ence and it gives visitors a Chance to see More than one Shakespeare play during a Short Stuy in London and compels the cast to bring a fresh approach to each the old Vic is subsidized by the arts Council of great in addition to its own the old Vic has organized the Bristol old Vic and a theater school for aspiring Young a further com Pany of old Vic artists is currently touring the and will give 170 performances in Illinois and Missouri be fore finishing the season on the old Vic company in London is made up of a constantly changing band of actors who work at reduced salaries for the pleasure of performing in the plays of Britain first produced under the highest standards in the world the theater stands on the South Bank of the thames near Waterloo Bridge not far from the site of the Lgth Century Globe theatre where the works of the Bard were first soviet authorities have launched a counterattack against incursions of Rock n Roll music and sentimental ballads from the the situation is conceded to be phonograph records in the millions Are drenching the soviet motherland with music that is convulsive All according to a spate of articles in pravda and other 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