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...fuzzy minded conservative, Dos Passos wrote the original novels while a fuzzy-minded liberal, and the play sometimes verges on the sentimental glorification of the sordid and false that fuzzy-mindedness may produce. However, a coolly ironical detachment saves most of the script from mushiness, and provides a background for emotion-packed events that enables us to accept their content as sentiment, rather than sentimentality...
...that date it was occupied and partially rebuilt by "squatters" from the mainland, whose culture was far below the true Cretan level. The theory depended on Sir Arthur's claim that he found jars of squatter type in a room whose clay floor covered tablets written in Cretan script. This proved, he said, that early, literate Cretans had been superseded by comparatively crude invaders from mainland Greece. But according to Duncan Mackenzie's entry for Tuesday, May 8, 1900, the tablets were found on top of the floor on the same level as the squatter jars, and therefore...
...soldiers kneel in a hollow halfcircle, facing inward with banners flying, and cheer several times: "For England and Saint George!.!" This might come off after Henry V, but Henry IV: I does not end on a note that can sustain a gesture such as Vaughan has added to the script. Except for this mistake, Vaughan's staging always enhances Shakespeare and shows his willingness to trust the plays, a welcome change from the fooling-around and gimcackery that characterizes many American Shakespeare productions...
...same problem of style hampering translation is found in Lowell Swortzell's direction. It is conceivable that by a careful introduction of side-splittingly funny bits Mr. Copley's script might have been saved (though I doubt it). Instead Mr. Swortzell has contented himself with moving his actors awkwardly around the stage. When he does choose to introduce a bit he invariably works on the principle that if something is funny once it will be at least twice as funny the second time...
Respectful but firm, West Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung has called for a "thorough revision" in place of the minor script-surgery performed over the last decade, mainly to excise some anti-Semitic passages. In the Hitler era (when almost all the leading members of the cast were Nazis except Judas), the Sanhedrin was packed with overdrawn heavies, atrociously attacking the blond Christ and his blue-eyed disciples. Somehow this spirit, if toned down, remained...