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How many times do you read a name in print and find yourself wondering about the personality that lies behind it? This article on poet-dramatist CHRISTOPHER FRY (above) is the first character portrait of the author "The Lady's Not For Burning," "A Phoenix Too Frequent" and "Venus Observed.”
A kick it in the ribs and ́it gives me a nice new toy,
It's the British Lion!”
London Express Service
HE TRANSLATES OUR
MODERN IDIOM INTO BLANK VERSE
tellectual, quick to laugh-wean; tweedy, comfortable clothes and brogues, Her Ammoothed dark hair la baleen, straight back from her face. She looks £5 though she might be happiest In a country cottage away from towns and prvements. But
·By HAZEL MAY
being here she gets a lot of fun out of it..
She likes to arrange her inst very long. flowers with a fow sticks of rhubarb to enhance the effect.
him
negative side," is his advice. He is hopeful--a little wistfully, wkh his head in the Middle Agii sten toslly that out of the tribulations of our times will spring new gold In music, art, literature and the drama.
"But there must be more colour
in our everyday
The world of theatre stretched this interest which attracts before him. But alas! The tea him to the short, religious play, and variety pounds, he remembers, didn't He found plenty of scope, with speech," he urges. He deprecates his talent. for creating a the well-worn phrase, the com- A friendly songwriter took character, on ground where he mon epithet, He onco lectured on as his secretary, follow- telt familiar. Two more re-some length en this, flatness in I remarked that this was a ed by Fry's one and only sally ilgious plays followed, "The our language, urging the use of faveurile practice of a famous as an actor. He trod the boards Firstborn," finished after the vivid simile in daily speech. 1 West End florist. "Oh no!" she of the Globe Theatre, where his war, later broadcast and per- is this quality, of course, which himself 30 abundantly ed to
formed at the Edinburgh Fes he
said in distress. "And I thought "Lady's Not For Burning" play tival, and "Thor With Angels," posses. Such phrases leap to
it was my own idea...I shall pull it all out and make it into a tart immediately".
TE
Twinkling, eyes
lectures or
απ
whimsical Duke of Altair in
tion,
never
years later. He was offered
houses fourteen to packed
about St Augustine, for the mind as understudy part, coupled with Canterbury Festival. what Fry calls a small bilingual role"-the of a a stage butler. es, Monsieur." For
this
hig
did producers. How otherwise powers were developing,
TN
Jn
"...that was the pick-are
voice of a cock Beginning to break up the
night". and
a
happy person who "aite and purys "As if the morning was
saucer of milk”. He achieves brilliant economy of words. Perpetua In Venus says:
"Why do we all have to get between someone else And the sun? Keep me from
doing this again."
Fry
On the way
believes that
the verso
which open with "Pass
though he likes to give him--- Continental-houses, pink; parch wanted, or intended, to do anytime he wrote-the-lyrics-and--Plonter, Corpa ter-five years of medium is Shakespeare's gift of
Not forced is a small man with who says "Yes,
he was promised £5 a weelt,
veelt, TRY never forced his genius. twinkling eyes under un- and promptly ordered #new He didn't belleve in hurty- usually-marked brows that domi shirt. Unfortunately the show ing. He knew, with unerring nate his face. His voler lingers collar after
the two rehearsals, instinct, that latent of pleasantly
collapsed the car with during which his cue was never writing, like the petals of a subtle cadences and inflections. reached. The bill for the shirt flower, must unfurl slowly. It is a voice polished up for
So he just went on quietly with reading poetry aloud. When he remained unpaid.
Personal magnetism and charm his Herary alchemy, transform the broadcasts
their part
the ordinary metal of ing rhythm of his poetry creeps in, have played and he turns his phrases with career. "This man is different" restricting subjects into the gold one thinks on meeting him. So of his verse: All the time his the crackle and piquancy of the
He could a young man of so little started "The Fireborn" and was "Veraus Observed".
Perhaps this is why he is experience, and, at this stage, just warming to the play of its one of the finest, lecturers in, so little to show for a burning poetry when the war com
Charm and personality him H
play 16 on London, able to cast a spell of poetic ambition, have, succeeded
its way. theatre has outworn enchantment over an unwarmed to a number of promising jobs? the job of Director of the Oxford The lecture room. He quite fre
Playhours in 1940, during which 12 everyday prose. Says quently lectures to clubs and 15- Light touch he me: Pamela Brewn for whom he: "People are tired of visiting
and
he wrote the part of Jennet HRISTOPHER FRY is a Ane, broad waterway-part raty socialles on poetry
the
always illustrating drama,
The Lady's Not for Burning" the theaire to see breakfast-table apoet- dramatist of the Grand Union Canal and his lectures with a lot of quon, IN 1934 he captured the job of His principles kept him from the marmalade darling. There is
comedies director of the Tunbridge fight role in the armed forces a demand for something more whom the world still there are willows, a group of old barges, and reßceted across
Wella Repertory Players. The first He was a conscientious objecia. satisfying" reckons young,
Christopher Fry has al- the water a cluster of almost
season boomed, and at the same who found his way into the belleves that the correct thing else but write Verso music self an old and mellowed ment yellow and dirty white.
for "She Shall Have work in Liverpool docks and blank verse "which wo plays. It goes back as far as Music" .st the Saville Theatre
threw air. The English stagę grab-
remember. He wrote Fry lives beside the Canal in he can
London sewers. London.
afler the Elizabethan The
ain away first play when
lightness of ho, was
After the war It was evident epoch." But this must be adapted bed the verse drama he a self-consciously clean little his
touch twelve pocket was
necessary to song-writer with a
The central character
that the taste of the town had to our modern idiom. And offered just as soon as cream house
CAMA
to him. An naturally handkerchief garden.
Hiawathal Fortunately, On the was
changed to a mood more receptive obscurity should be discouraged, Fry abandoned the more garden gale is a
astonished, Fry found himself Shakespeare was notice which
never spout
to his talent. He returned to his for as one of Fry's own charac bolt in possession of some money turgid tendencies of his says "Beware of the Doge", be for him at school. He managed for the first time
with a sigh of relief. "A ders says: In a taste for mediaevalism. cause the neighbourhood is
is to avoid reading Shakespeare in
time.
He bought out the Phoenix Tco Frequen!" was put
"It's a thing I have no love pro- on at Martin Browne's season of Witches, the apparatus of known as Little Venice. Ruskin a classroom until he was fifteen.
Company plays at the Mercury Theatre in mawkish feudalism, whimsy chrietened it, and since then But having heard Shakespeare's moters of the Wells
probably his choice of London and later produced at fle it hos attracted literary verse many times from the stage
was plays and wild words; he offered people and artists.
in his own taste, Arts, "The Lady's Not For Bum Browning's the rhythms of Elizabethan not the pubile's, for the next fag": Olivier commissioned him and in nearby houses are the ears.
tory closed. studios of Graham Sutherland,
acclaim from the pubile with selling down at about 9 p.m. for to write another play he Fellx
When he left school Fry was Next ho Topolski and Lucian
Was commisaloned rome critics tagging along and a six-hour stretch, and sleeps in determined that anything in his te write
He 19 slow, a play for Dr Bar- others carping professionally. The the came gave us a backward-looking Freud.
career must be a preparation for nardo's homes-dramatizing the torrent of his cloquence but painstaking writer "Welling is Duke, a temple, a telescope,
his work as a poetic dramatist. life of some blank verse.
the founder Thomas upon Landon and left gasping. never easy to me"-frequently Nothing that helped to develop Barnardo--and to produce it
writes for days, and then scraps 狸 all over the
all that he has done and starts provinces.
Hunting plots Now England has completely
self-consciously is powers of writing, was
waste of time, however
afresh. - at least a play and for Fry just accepted this young
avoid the Mayfair-fat-and- important the subject. Perhaps another training canter, man who
has
He does not draw his charac- difficulty •"in cail translate our modern idiom cottage-in-Cornwall way of life that is why it is seldom his. In 1936 he married a
tera into blank verse that shamers gammon to writers of West End ideas that are striking, but
direct from life."They inventing plots the Lea the list. After two years of scrap- same could
come from within,” be.
he days, sald of Sout with image enri metaphor. successes. Their home is artis way he expresses them,
Ing to make
meet,
have never thought it necessary Caught in the
DI search-Ught
a Shakispeare-and he prefers to that a writer should have to but not grandiose. They
cousin
a find them the nation's enthusiasm Fry is enjoy browsing In antique
The new shirt u bohemian chops, and the spoils of many
jegacy, revented, notes
and they went to live Shakespeare, he hunts for them reck them around him. Surely in an old mill in Sussex. The in almost any material. The idea mest of us have enough facets eccentric, but as a young Eng Saturday afternoon sortie are NO Fry joined the Bath Reper local vicar asked Fry to write for "The Lady's No: For Buming" In our own personalities to be simple tastes with there on shelf and bookette. Story company, where he did a short play to celebrate the came from a German short story able to His greatest skill And "all characters. original turn of mind.
There was obviously a period everything from acting minor 60th anniversary of the village about a man who wanted to be The Frys' home is hard to of collecting glazed turquoiss
church. The good man went have
Klies hanged. But in the original the
in, creating a character and. North
blue pottery, and there are roles to working in the office. of Paddington
at the end of the nine through few ideas that he man went off and fought in the Hilda's unfortunato husband in with shattering Irony, liko station's grey bleakness is a surprising number of busts, and But
months a practical family insist- thought might be woven info Thirty Years little street totally unexpected an old Venetian lute.
Wor Fry had a teaching Job a story.
better ending.. He supplied lovs. this side of the Channel. It is Their tortes are simple. They ed on his taking
small prep school in Sur-, at mill and a near- lived in no old
Fry interest and married mum to the play which was to his witch-giri, with pavements run ramshackle
small cottage in their rey. On the first day of the first wrote
term he started saving so that start sad little houses carly, married life. Even now
him on his
silver night to 'spend". of decaying gentility. But they will not exchange their he could go back to the theatre. career the "Bay With A
Ib 1950 we
had "Venus und a sharp bend the whole 1980 Vauxhall for an expensive At the end of three years to revived in London and Oxford
hened atmosphere changes. Here is car. Mrs Fry is charming; In had saved £10, Joyfully he left. recently. In the little village hood where he strengt
story slightly moderated the of Coleman's Hatch in Sussex richness of language, and gave us The scored his flint success,'
wit and poetry · in
these. But when Laurence house stands actites the water, phrases were ringing in his
an
npproached through a slum, Cracked alang beside
THE
Simple tastes
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INSIDE INFORMATION
eightcon froubled..
for
By Mercury
Some Sparsh copper went to
un-
but
It
To have to go, groping along
the corridors
Of someone else's mind
season falled and the next tug he completed in 1948.
brought him Instantonecus He invariably writes at night,
And
Was
Journa- FRY
died in them
#
80
Christopher
af Cart
Plenty of scope
was discovered by Mariin.
·
ready-made. Like
subtlety of excellence.
But
Fry can get stuck. He wrote ene which had been Laurence
Venus:
"There was nothing to be
seen in Roderic For mile after mile, except A few sleeplike thoughts nibbling through .... the pages e
of ashiny weekly, any number of dead pheasants, Partridges, pigeonă, fays and
hares
An occasional signport extreme préjudice Marked "No Thoroughfare's
Browno-now head of the Olivier, and he could get no fur», and the flat horizon
* trans-
perled
Mad Russia recently through Switzer- the US, High Commision on a stage in; thelf, - careera, « would, renewed entry to means", and
land;
Which" "la not' so much
horizon Bazed St
British Drama League, who ther: So he launched into commissioned him to write a lation of Anoulih'aplay “L'lavits- RITISH official estimates. The US. has asked Spain to include development of space pageant for the Girls' Friendly
elon u
out turned out B
to operate outside the Society to be acted in the Albert 63 Fry's
straight line beyond are that even if a stop further copper exports to ships
earth's gravity.
Hall, and 4
for the WALES play
which one doesn't look!!! settlement la reached with Iron Curtain countries,
of Meseel-something Persla, labour relations will
Towson estival. Fow of
y an atmospheric
New era vaguely dramatists, at any West Germany has sounded our remain
*would fantasy. He came WithISITORS to the Festival of
· Drita in have had the opporsi plan to raise Ruhe steel produce still own up to such, disigri.
ments in their past.
finished it Fry-was
triumphantly by tion to 17,000,000 tons yearly amused and made the moat in the react plot about the playA Sleep of Prisoners"
tunity of wooing Fry's latest- san choosing a mother from his which was presented in a Arab countries are urging equal to that of Britain.
MANN Mfather's former mistresses. Inward church-an unusual place for a Turkey to copy Persin' and to
The
result was "Thursday"", breaks öff· ́`diplomatic relationis America is considering ration Child" at the Albert Hall, over the play turn away to a deft but ‚with «Taras1.
Ing steel at home for non-defence which he and his wife will brief pass at the amoure, famous bright. Next te he plans for anothers, full- Industries.
chuckit portrayed the Ruin
Play to complete, his.. 998) of a Girl who Entered a: Danceiç have been advised by their Argentins will propose at the The Britain Government li Hill ( shook the Albert Falls Positive side spring, and Venurt the futumnal government to terminate their next General Assembly that Italy cooridering: "state project, to | to = Hta: sounciations" says D17) BY has a buoyant literary mood, contracts Pop
should be admitted to the United develop (Alberta" olid aids.
and her salvation through the", optimism, in which he met. "
Sir Francis Shepherd, British Ambasandor Teheran, is likely to go to another post soon
Persiana working for the BBCo
The
Nations
"Ministerio o
of 1.90
bageing man,
Robert: 3 Brow
has
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