Leiber, Fritz

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Leiber, Fritz (1883–1949), actor and director. After making his stage debut in 1902 with a stock company in his native Chicago, he joined the Ben Greet Players, learning the basic Shakespearean repertory with them and first appearing before New York audiences in 1905 as Macduff in their Macbeth. He later spent many seasons as a principal supporting player to Robert Mantell, often alternating with Mantell in the roles of Othello and Iago. Leiber then organized his own Shakespearean company. John Corbin of the Times said of his Hamlet, “His lean, trim figure and poetic masque are well suited to the role. In enunciation he at times lacks purity, and his voice has no great variety or range, but his reading is for the most part cultivated and intelligent.” From 1929 to 1932 he directed and appeared with the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Company, then toured with a reorganized Shakespeare ensemble in the mid‐1930s. He said to have played more than a hundred different Shakespearean parts.

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