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A CRITIC'S
TO THE
A questing mind might
The Rains
Rains Came To Lift The Great Drought
From BERTRAM JONES
A
[N the cil-lt bars of Aus- ·They were afraid to belleve it, tralia's Northern Terri- Drom hissed into the bonfires tory, cattle drovers are mounds of their drought-slaln where they were burning gigt. raising their schooners of beasts. Their horses anilfed, and beer to drink a toast to "the whinnied. And then the rain sot rains."
in. Steady soaking rain.
"
Up there, at the cross oads of the great stock routes of North Australia, a miracle has happened, "
Rain has fallen. Rain on country that has seen hardly a drop for ten months. Rain.where hope of rain before October had faded in unending days of thirst. Rain to end the worst drought that beckmon have over known. Rain to save thousands of cattle from perishing from starvation and thirst.
Cattlemen sat motionless in their saddles and let it drench them to the skin. Then, bellevi ing. at last, they galloped to the homestead and shouted to their families to come out and sec They danced in the rain. They Fang,
it's a lifesaver" they saideruret
Wont on falling
ROM 100 miles north of Alice Springs, down through the heart of the beef country, past Tennant Creek and over the Australia it
It began gently.. Pastoralists border into South looked up from the bare brown rained. earth, and the first spots wet their faces.
FAREWELL THEATRE
By Beverley Baxter, M.P.
certain
P and "South Pacific" stalls, wonder (a) How an MP desirous that should be present
John Glelgud Was no Icas
If I
evor
could be a dramatic critic at the birth of his newest Never Equalled
and (b) having become one, triumph.. why give it up?
hund
charms, that youth will never know. Tyrone Guthrie, John Fernald and boy genius numed Peter Brock were breaking all rules and founding a new era of production.
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And it rained across the water- less ranges from Charleville In Queensland into the farmlands- of Western Australia..
Alice Springs soon had half an Inch-and rain still foll
Eldedra, Hatches Creek and Wauchopo-northeast of Alice.... passed the two-inch mark.
Port Hedland in Western Australia had nearly 81⁄2 inches in 16 hours-and' the' rain wede on falling.
There are 300,000 cattle-about! one-third of the Northern Ter ritory's beefherds-in the rain area.
Ex
Within a week they will be:2 grazing on the first fresh grass that the rains will bring, and
Drovers, who sold their over.
And at Sunday services, gin) ecores of outback homestead par- laurs, there will be prayers of.....
Glory Dimmed thanksgiving for the rains.
Experiments
record!!!
T was not an easy de- cision to take. For ten years I had, been the dramatic critic of the London Evening Standard, writing a weekly column feel. Yes there is
Sometimes the audience is so people. The plays of 'Euripides Then came the impact of the landars gear for a song when the poets. Christopher Fry wrote drought looked hopeless, are which appeared on Fridays; relief at being out of it.
spectacular that the play itself in Ancient Greece more truly The Lady's Not for Burning" getting ready to hit the stock
of that ne no chance Yet one has only to set down his
compete, portray the character to
which was really a ballet of
of routes again with their herds of and then came the moment
fcuds which those words to wonder if the Certainly I found that in 1942 nation than the
words. I
mean precisely that cattle. They said: "There will be when I had to any to my feeling will persist. For ten when I produced my own play
harass it today,
He' made words dance, and Lon-pasture seen right through --to old friend Lord Beaver years Sir Laurence Olivier,our St James Theatre.
"It Happened in September". u To the surprise of the don halled him like a conqueror. Alice Springs ralihend,”...... must solemnly requested the honour brook: "The -curtain
managements, the British people Other poots fallowed and the first write another play at the first
I shall invite of my presence
the war did not want tawdry publie clamoured for the best come down." For.once the of
For one critic could speak the same presentation of this or that; Rod- only the critics and let the or things in the theatre,
Hammerstein
openings d 8.30 gers
were dinary public make up the rest thing, the and words as Hamlet and say
solicitous about equally
the of the audience. An author does brought a new public for
FOR THE that the rest was silence.
As I have in- "Oklahoma", not want competition from the living drama. of
dicated, typists and clerks came direct from their offices. Soldiers. on leave who had has enough wish I could put on recor
that the London theatre is as TROM Alice Springs trains will knockabout In action came to full of splendour as it was then. see plays by the masters, not by The Impetus of those years has where there is plenty of feed, carry the beasts out to areas The cynic might observe at this
the novices,
subsided; the glory has dimmed. they were equally I DOKING back on those teri
We still have great acting when Without the rains they would have been too weak to start the point that
presence of L
years, I can begin to feel a
It is given a chance, but our
trek or would have died on the": solicitous about the
authors seem unable to illumine trail; 100,000 have died already, the critics from the Times, qulekening of the pulse at some Observer, Express, of the glorious memories that Telegraph,
the shadowed age in which we and losses reach
million Moll and so on. That is true. will never fade. There was that
live. period in the war when Laurence THERE was a golden age of So as a critic I put down my
Ralph Richardson
'action developing before our
would like ta think that Olivier and
pen. I were asked by the Government to eyes. John Gielgud was reaching in those years I encouraged the revive the glories of the Old Vic, the height of his powers and, best and castigated the valgar the far north of the Territory. which had been destroyed by a as I have indicated, Laurence and the second rate. If some of A Sydney engineer, M bomb.
Olivier was
was bringing an aude
audacity, the criticisms
I tried Miller, set up were harsh, I
three "outsize and even genius, production
never to break an actor's heart, mirrors on the Darwin water- They took the New Theatre in and The tradition of the writer-
was-moving-upo Ralph Richard-whether · It--
It is the theatre, the ment. He said the reflection of politician has been long es-
are themselves a mere pittance, they son was vitalising everything he cinema, art, music or books, and the sun's rays into the sky would tablished in Parliament here. supposed to go better in
and Alec Guinness was he must fight for the eternal bring rainclouds in four or five.. £0 each senior gathered Sheridan wrote plays, and even company,
actors and they gave to us such
I loved and still love days. Covent Garden critle is sent two seats
on productions of Shakespeare and can be displayed even when the theatre. managed the
But this is the Northern Tari-. alale,
senior Shaw Theatre at the same time as he the
and by
and Tchekhov and speaking memorised lines.
At any rate, in what I have tory's dry season, and peanut was Under-Secretary for Foreign critics I merely mean those
Vivien Leigh was growing in written, 1 have put you growers wira the Territory. Affairs. Gibbons wrote much of writing for the principal news: Euripides as may never again be
equalled.c
stature. Sybil Thomdike; Edith In the Beat on the aisle at administrator to stop the experi❤ "Decline and Fall" in the House papers.
Evans and Lillon Braithwaite, a London first night. Iment because rain would harm were proving that maturity has hope you enjoyed the experience. their crops...
The answer to the first part of that question is that in Britain we have not yet accepted the professional politician idea of the unless of course he becomes a minister. The idea is that an Sweet are the uses of advertise ordinary private member carries ment, and it was for us to tell London the good (or bad) tidings on his profession or occupation in his spare time as best he can, about their offerings. concentrating on those subjects of debate in which he has special knowledge or interest.
oohn Buchian loved to
they
Bridge.
Every Night
I
Two Seats
Golden Age
to
pounds.
+
*
However, drought still grips
E horses the critics St Martin's Lane, -- they paid acting. Michael' Redgrave. The celtic must love his medium front in a rainmaking experi-
A critic
from
awkard for order
order with the box office for know.
first
credible,
;
group of famous touched that high-intelligence valura
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Buzz Bomb
small majoriained by only he being a descendant of the ed. Shaw's
the
"Arms and the
WOMEN? They're
the tougher sex after all
by the DOCTOR
little obscure, but it is prob ably due to different glandular make-up in the two sexes, Obesity (and for that matter slenderness) also tends to min
them to know
ן ייו,
of Commons Library. Disraeli quarterly review or highbrow Because of the bombing and did a certain
tain amount of writing weekly would get only one ticket the blackout, theatres opened at there, but his real heart was in and not necessarily on the alalo. 6.10 p.m., and people came direct Inevitably a London first night from their offices and workshops. work in the Library, where from audience becomes something of As the war went on they looked the window you can see the a repertory company in itself. Increasingly to the drama to ex- ancient Thames and hear, the The critics are not only a per- press their spirit people, for peremptory hooting of tugs as manent body but usually have the Englishman is too reserved
approach Westminster the same scata no matter what to reveal his own emotion.
theatre it is.. Then there are I remember the night when. the ticket agency managers who Olivier's Old Vic Company gave come so as to decide how much, us such an inspiring production
any, of a library deal they of "Henry IV" that, when should make.
curtain fall, both the audience They will buy seats in bulk and the actors were in tears.
are tho dif. have summoned, these great according to the warmth of the Greatness was in the very air.HAT
ferences between the men from the mists merely to reception and their own judg- Shakespeare had come back from
sell them to the sixteenth century to give mental equipment of men Illustrate my argument. Let me ment, and then repeat that the writer-politician their clients plus a booking fee.. voice to England fighting for and of women? This is constructed, have a more effl-
Then there is a small group her life against a darker enemy is a long established figure in the British Parliament.
of people who have a standing than Elizabethan England ever one of the questions discuss clent internal chemical system, In familles, but here men and
ed in the new edition of and in varkaus other way are women share the same risk.
biologically better adapted to Admittedly Was
Arst night. seems
Amram Scheinfeld's stan- resist attend to
mort of the me on 'occasion
modern but it is true. Sir Lo
Lobla night when big debate was and his wife, well in
"You dard work,
and human affictions." taking place, but by altering their seventies, go to the theatre
Heredity." Scheinfeld The only single important In case some men may be dates and various other devices sometimes four nights o
in detall the disease of childhood which depressed by women's advan It worked well enough until the there is a glut of new production. THEN there was that incredible earnest den tie takes a higher toil of girls than tage in genetic endowment. 16 Conservatives · won Inst
year's So do Edward Sutro and his wife, evening when they play endowments of the two this should be so is a mystery. that there is no evidence that
boys is whooping cough. Why may comfort election.
and with an Im famous: Edwardlan dramatist,
It is equally a mystery why women's biological superiority amount of contentious There
Man",
on the very night sexes,
stammering should be so much qualifies them to do anything; are others, too, which that the House of
Bulgaria had offered For every 100 girls born commoner among boys
than better than mene ought to convince anyone that to "bas become, a
caso.. fighting for
and rear children. The there are about 105 - boys. It girls. fight for the centration camp for the Govern. the British are a tough breed.
Gerrandung. Shaw's 40-
was thought for a long time
An Important difference
be Russians
that male embryod were
tween the sexes is also seen "Th ment's supporters... From early afternoon, and sometimes to day
year-old satire on Bulgaria sud-
the progress of gifted children, denly became more topical than stronger and go better able to through the trudgo
to birth. The reverse, survive
Males suffer especially from Boys usually fura thale falectal Lobbies voting, voting, voting,
tomorrow's newspaper. We were fact, is the truth. Because : certain Inherited disorders to good account in later fo When
in tears again, but this time with
males are, we show some lack
the biologically
which the women of the family but girls, even in these days. enthusiasm as the Division bells FUNALLY there is a gallery outrageous laughter.
weaker sex more malo than may transmit without, as.. are often content with th go for the, tenth time, the Chief- First Nighters" Club,
I remember.
one first night female embryos are started off general rule, being affected by humdrum occupation which Alls that when u.VI: hovered: over the on the read to life in order to them. Colour. Whip looks at us as Frederick which regularly
blindness
be and happens to ncarent the Great looked at his part of the theatro known theatre, going round and round make up for the greater
loss haemophilia (a dangerous hand. Grenadiers who were reluctantly as the gods. They are in the air. Instinctively the au- among males, not only in the proneness to severe bloeding) One of the commonest!; preparing, to make yet another keen critics of the drama, being diance rushed to the sides and embryo, stogo but in infancy, are two of these disorders. charge against
that parental worries is about chemy and much
and old is common knowledge
child's Lots went on age.
apparent failure Do shouted
to their mood. There actors, being actors,
Urough transmission by Queen grow and put on weight)" (1) want to live
tila. bloodless war between the with the play. Then
Victoria to some of her descone fast as, say, the neighbour' had ruled out the critics and the gallery because bamb
bitzed off
dants, the gene (heredity face
child.
Fortunately itˇia¬very their verdicts
verdicts are seldom the elao, the audience returned to
tor) responsible for hammo unikely that a child who, i first night at Westminster and my there are the celebrities actors for a had performance of reluctant to be born than giris, the Royal Houses of Europe in healthy is
their seats, and finally booed the
Boys, incidentally, are more philla kas plagued several of small and thin but otherwise There, s no troublo about sitting. Finally there are
suffering either from
or from forand sutil the end of the pors, who have been invited by the a bad play must say it sont who usually enter the world the last 50 years or 0. Fore mamutrition.
fot all management, to give tone to the pretty touch looking back on several days before boys in a', Qlogrammatie: #pedigree" aringita progreREA PROUIN
as Scheinfeld, shown cansunately as
physical disorder which faish Famous film stars, now.
bring themselves to face it.” Nothing aro |
In- almost will ever kill
children of of relief at leaving the theatrical celebrated
Important the
dur
prosent
Conriltution, and Frate Act A critic has to hes ploys "reating peers and the raging theatre. If there had never been disenso
Calabotes,
cartain Queen canhot suffer from has growth are inherited, and page nich, nd "min"""in", hila zdanes, beauties of the moment..
No such a thing as the printing forms of cancer, and golire mophills or carry the gene. vidiosi a chilik has a good-hom would, alt through, and to fill his Wouder there is always a crowd, press, if there had never been excepted) the maio: destienis "Baldhets is another inherited and good food" (eyes if the op.. column the critic must sometimes outaldo to, seo us arrive and de- books of record; the theatre | lan-much-higher than cintho physical tendency which, arceta paistas sebi zaprlokális) ....... force himself to show an Interdat part. It is part of the London would be the continuing historian female As Scheinfeld puts it: woman much less severely than grow at the natural tenis
· in⋅ a: subject which he does not direts
of the customs and speech of a "Tymalos aru genetically batter, mon. The reason for this is a la phyalsal inheritance
mense
mont
light, we'
con-
Ant. Every night is lav1
formance
Its out until
London Circus
accortina4.34 booing or cheering, stood against the walls while the childhood, manhood
actors who
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