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...Julius Caesar (by William Shakespeare; produced by the Mercury Theatre). Manhattan's intimate Comedy Theatre once echoed to Holbrook Blinn's The Bad Man, staged Katharine Cornell's debut (1916), played host to the theatre's great until northbound Broadway moved on and left it to amateurs, foreign language mummers. Last week Orson Welles and John Houseman reclaimed it as the Mercury Theatre, and the change meant more than a new sign over the marquee. It meant a new. vitalizing experiment in drama...
...angled shafts of light marked this Caesar (Joseph Holland) well-his striding height, jutting chin, cross-belted military tunic, sleek modern breeches. Dark-shirted followers saluted him with uplifted right arms, sharp hails. Lights more benign singled out contemplative, poet-haired Brutus (Orson Welles), a reluctant, calmly-reasoning conspirator-an introspective idealist in a blue serge suit. No lean and hungry Cassius was Actor Martin Gabel, but a hunched, spleeny agitator, surrounded by grim adherents in modern mufti, slouch hats pluck'd about their ears...
...find on the one hand," reported the resolutions committee at the A. F. of L. convention in Denver last fortnight, "the dominating and fulminating Caesar of the C. I. O. marching his Roman legions to the White House with bludgeoning threats, while on the other hand we find the Machiavelli of the same C. I. O. pursuing the methods typical of that old master of cunning and conniving, working through the catacombs of politics, pouring oil upon the troubled machinery of national politics so that where the one smashes through in ruthless effort at conquest, the other follows after with...
Adjutant General: Julius Caesar...
Macaulay: ". . . There is nothing to stop you. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. . . . Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your Republic will be . . . laid waste by barbarians in the 20th Century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth...