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William Douglas Home,
most
persistent
of all playwrights
By RICHARD BERRY
Never in the history of the English stage has a theatrical lady been more
gallantly defended than Aunt Edwina.
Mercilessly shot down by the erilles ca the night of November 3. 1059, she was not expected to
10 cents PER WORD OVER 20urvive the week. Yet three
£20,000 offer to write a filmm script of Lolita."
One also suspects that he in- stinctively puts up a stubborn fight when principles are at stake. He has campaigned for prison reform and the abolition has of capital punishment. He attacked the Government over Suez and Cyprus. He was to the Bon. William Douglas demning the atom bomb
of all 1ome, most persistent
laywrights, who brought Aunt
montlas Inter there is evidence Births, Deaths, Marriages, she may be alive and kick Personal $5.00 per insertioning still. not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA
Credit for this remarkable survival must go almost entirely
before VJ Day.
He has fought
con- even
unsuccessfully
as a Liberal Parliamentary can- didate.
if not prepaid a booking fee Edwina into the world and pre- of 50 conte le charged.
senteil her on the stage of the West End's Fortune Theatre.
William Douglas Home was Few people ented for his born 47 years ago, one of four favourite untie fox-hunting cons of the 13th Earl of Home colonet with the D.S.0, and two fnronounced Hume). bars who embarrasses his family his ancestors was Scottish Am-
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British newsletter from Peter Burgoyne A NEW EPOCH In Cinema Entertainment!
The railways issue is far
from over
London (By Airmail),
By the time you read this you should know whether or not the great railway strike has been averted.":
that
The enormity of the posdble barrier af the last minute and
complain paralysis of the British railway returning to systern is hard to imagine for they've missed their train. When anyone who does not know how we explain politely that the much Britain relles on its rail train, left on time they become
abusive."
ways.
Since the first primitive loco- motive sputtered from Stockton
*
le Darlington In 1825 the intense economie life of these islands We're all being bitten by
has been built around the rail-
way systemTI..
the respectability these days.
Take commercial
bog
travellers,
Ages,
Over 17,000 locomotives haul freight and passengers over 51.000 miles of rail track. for instance. I'd always thought Nearly 59 million ten-miles of of them as vaguely raffish types, freight daily. About 24 million it successors to the nomadie commuters alone every day. chapmen of the Middle
And just one region, the central characters of countera Southern, carries
which begin, annually dublous stories
WEI this number of "There
commercial roughly the same prssengers as all the Class 1 traveller. railways of the USA.
Commercial travellers like it.
To do this, state-owned British Railways employs well over half a million men and women. Of these, 358,000 are members of the National Union of Railway- mon. (The others belong to the footplate union and the while collar union).
don't
This week the BBC staged a television play about them and carned a nasty rap on the knuckles from the general secre jury of the United Commercial Travellers' Association.
- Objection was taken to the principal character who, the "gave the
by Beachcomber workers who are threatening to UCTA complained,
IT
has been
to
pointed out me that the publicity given Waggling Parva to the Strabismus Lunatik at ittle
shows
of
concern for screcy.
by changing into A woman. Lassador to England in the 15th; I hasten to reveal that the Mr Douglas Home has since de- century; another led the van at signposts in the neighbourhood voted his time making people Flodden (Mr Home has written can be of no use to spies. They
a play about the battle).
care.
Distressed by the reviews, Home talked about the play to This father-in-law, Viscount 11ampden. Father-in-law thought Auntie deserved better trest- ment and the author resolved to fight for her life.
FTB KASY TO TELL which wiele your bread be buttered when you i prend it with Swiss Knight CheĞDU,
*l) {EX* sent locally post free in plain sealed envelopes. Homit 2 for Leiat ample
Every night after curtain fall he went on stage and appealed to the audiense to ignore the Surgieat' rubber goods grities and judge Aunt Edwing
and price tals. Buropean super- vision. Write to 'ersul service, 1.O. Box 0045. Kowloom.
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with ine own heart upon your bad, and be
-Izalms 4:4.
We are not very well soqueint- ed with cur real selves, Shut out the world and cok inward, Liome changes may be indiented.
Press-Radio Bible Service, A. Inc Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bli bear nctitious names.
These 365,000 are the railway- strike. Because the diners can impression of being indifferent not work without them, their in his dress and habits and that withdrawal of labour would is far removed from the typical shutdown of British commercial traveller." mean a
My apologies for having always and of London's vital
thought otherwise, Underground system.
The National Union of ball-strike The recent token
called but Rallwaymen
of the by Underground crews all
that national railway strike ott paralysed London. And
muy February 12 after accepting a was only a taste of what
five per cent pay rise offered by well be to come.
government).
They all want it.
Why are the railmen threaten- The four brothers have all Waggling Porva itself appears ing the nation with chaos? distinguished themselves as Thimblethwalte. and in the Simply because they want their differcul spheres, The road leading to it the signpost more money.
the NUR men. The eldesi, Alexander Frederick, says "Perth, 9 miles,' The Not Just
vital fact is that the NUR men now the 14th Earl, Is Secre- laboratories
лв disguised tary of State for Common-small shops, and the
hangar want money here and now,
substantial interim payment to which wealth Relations.
houses the rocket
Lide them over until an official William Douglas Home has fabelled: "Hay, no smoking."
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habit, daunting to his relatives and has a herd of cows ambling and friends, of caricaturing them round it and a yokel with a
on the stage. In The Chiltern straw In his mouth ht the
for themselves. He Wrote to Hundreds, for instance, the 13th entrance. All the scientists' and
Д
pay review committee appoint-
ed more than a year ago-makes its recommendations.
The other two unions want to
| newspapers and attacked critles Earl and the family butter, their asistents are dressed as wait for the committee report.
for "list-night buteliery."
He also sold his 1954 Bentley
for £1,500 and appeared, before the High Court to obtain
On
interia injunelion restraining Edwina's "angel" from closing the play.
TURNED DOWN £20,000
author's own
after the 100th performanec,
Collingwood, were lovingly disagricultural workers.
cuted.
Usually in his plays he takes
magnifying glass to people he A mountain grave knows well - duchesses, peers, ambassadors, debutantes. M.P.S
REFERENCE to the Ortier, attract him especially. He in the great Tirolese mountah,
plays in recalled
moving variably submits his manuscripts to his eldest brother inscription I saw in that part of the world, when I was walking near Trafoi. It mid-
for criticisms.
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to mic
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The reason for this differesce of approach is the key to the whole messy situation.
the Both sides know that review committee is bound to recommend wege Increases. But there is only a certain amount of money available for this pur- pose and both sides strongly suspect that the biggest increases пасть footplate will go to the
and to (drivers and fremen) the white-collar workers who, by and large, are more badly than the mass of underpaid workers who make up the NUR. Therefore the footplate men white-collar workers ond the believe that it is in their interest her THE idea of segregaling pedes-to walt. And the NUR men bo
do better by trians frem motor traffe Is Beve they will
res
"Here lles" (I forget the "He doesn't always take any name) "Aged eleven. Though lice," says the Eari wanly, small, he hurried to God with but the plays are generally the steps of a ginn!." better when he does."
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Just But the axe descended the same. After a highly dis- turbed two months
run, and after losing about £2,000 of the money, Aunt Edwina made her final curtsy at Chie 470-seater Fortune Theatre,
Mr Home's pretty, fair-haired|Suct on the war-path Undefeated, Mr Home
also studies his wife, Rachel, managed to fud her a temporary
between residence at the 800-seater Lyrie manuscripts in
chores as Theatre. She finished her run housework and there on February the day mother of three small children.gaining ground. Charlle Suet has forcing payment before the
round "My fe revolves
the prepared a scheme for pedestrian port cppears.
If the British Transport Com- live with parking areas. During the hours plays," she says.
while William of the heaviest traffic
warders mission give in to the NUR there would park pedestrians in or- every chance of another grave p.. Home has w written 14 derly formations behind borbed strike threat later from the other
two unions who will feel he be defeated by the departure plays of which only three have wire, only releasing them in
their money has been used of Henry Kendall, who is giving been real flops. His blg suc- 'alphabetics? order when the
buy off the NUR in police had reported that it clude The Chiltern Hundreds, seemed to be comparatively safe The author is taking his play The Reluctant Debutante and for a small body of them to Brighton for one week. I Now Barabbas. intend to bring it back to the He refuses the often-made West End-it, of course, we can suggestion that he writes only And a theatre for it"),
about the upper class und recalls Things to come that Now Barabens was set in a
But determined Mr Home will the characters not rest contented on reaching ereales them." an unexpected century, Nor will
up the title role for a few weeks to direct another play.
And he is taking over the part
of Aunt Edwma himself.
cesses, on stage and screen,
move about.
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that
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But whatever course is taken, the inescapable fact remains that sooner or later the whole ques- tion of government financing of the railways will have to be drastically re-thought.
It will be the third time that was about the battle of Flodden very many sensible people, fa2004 Meat for the cartoonists |
be has stood in" for the stars The Bad Samarilan told the
of his own plays. He has also story of a Dean.
played in The Chiltern Hundreds
and The Reluctant Debutante.
Why has Mr Home, Old Eton- lon son of the 13th Enel of Home. lought so tirelessly for his con- Ireversini sex-change play?
Clearly he has a genuine ad- miration for his own work. Also lie was upset by suggestions that his play was in bad taste.. "It is particularly maddening
I turned down
because
D
rison: The Thistle and The Rose motor industry is alarm- et by the possibly that
with
drink a choice betwech and driving cars, will choose One other thing sunoys the drink. But warrant there will talented Mr Home: the way soon be pills to ecizateract drink people conclude he must be in the bloodstream, beer which fox-hunting type as portrayed will give the breath the aroma In Aunt Edwing and other of a rozebower, and whisky works.
with a scent of honeysuckle.
He says: "I have been on a borso cnly once in my life, In
bel point-to-point for a
and then I fell off."-Central Press.
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