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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1961.
Patricia Lewis
the censor
I forecast: trouble Delayed by
on Broadway for 'Oliver!'
BROADWAY producer David Merrick's "Oliver's Transatlantic future.
talent for picking hits has become legendary and I applaud his persistent pro- motion of British plays and players to the New York theatre.
" ann.yed al The whole "It's a very,
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thing," he said. very good musical indeed. Fagin is written as offered,
Pied surt of Piper character. Some Jews are I know, by "Oilver!" but most of them are not--it's not offensive to me at all
"The planning >} Jong run. Georgia Brown has agreed to
But I predict that when Lionel Bart's smash "Oliver!" opens there in October next year Merrick appear in it for two years, but will reap a wild wind of controversy.
and
Because Americans are more over when the entire audience will affect the race-conselous than the British, is American where the broad, heavily show. accented Jewish playing of Fugin here recclves laughs, it may well be misconstrued as anti-Semitic on Broadway
only
Annoyed
Many American friends of
1 spoke to David Merrick last mine some Jewish, some not-
month. He was here to discuss have left "Oliver!" consider-
for taking arrangements ably disturbed {if not deeply
"Oliver!" but "Stop the resentful) of the manner in World-Want to Get Off" and which Fagin is interpreted.
"Ross" Lo New Yurk theither And one
cannot but wonder of which should give him any how much this feeling which problems) and appear: anxious
faith reafirm must be multiplied many times to
his
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WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE
A NEW AUSTRALIAN
I'm hoping it'll run as long as four."
Lionel Bart, who wrote the show, dismissed the whole ques-
tion with: " koow one or two ariverse comments have been made-but they are very sparse." The role of Fagin in "Oliver!" Was originally created quite brilliantly by Ron Moody, who admits having been influenced to some extent by Alec Guin- ness's performance in the film of Dickens's classic, "Oliver Twist."
Moody, however, has definitely turned down the part on Broad-
way.
10
Cockney?
lo du with
"It's nothing Fagin." he told me. "Just a difference ut opinion over con- tracts. After all, I did a year of it and that was enough. Yes, I gather there is a strong feeling in New York about the charac- ter, but if I had done it I would have resisted any attempts to change the way it's played- after all, we pretty well white- washed it for London.
-Christina's new film
SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD Christina Kaufmann is in that rare fund not particularly enviable position of being able to look back on ten years of film acting. Her first film, "Salto Mortale," showed her as a child bare- back rider in a circus and her Jast, "Town Without Plty," in which she stars opposite Kirk Douglas, shows her to be a rapidly maturing actress surprising depth.
The flim is due 10 open in London soon but has been held up for re-editing as the censor objected to a couple of scenes.
Miss Kaufmann-her father is German, her mother French has a gentle prettiness and a disconcerting penchant for changing the colour of her hair I went to meet her expecting H blonde but Christina is currently raven- black.
Rome is home now for Miss Kaufmann and her mother.
I went to Italy to grow up." she sald. "They wouldn't let me grow up in Germany because ther remembered me as a child star.
"But the only reason I became one was to get out of going to school. Now, though. I am starting really to like acting but I don't want to like so much that there is nothing in my life but work and ambition. I would give 11 up immediately to maITY,”
Christina-In blonde-haired days
"Maybe It's because I'm an innocent in the theatre that
1 they treat me so openly," said.
The last time Miss Signeret be, but the silhouette is there, Robson, but I can't get over my filmed in Britain
way she won an and it's staggering to think that surprise at the
they've THE CLEAN BREAST. By John Naish, New Authors. 18s. "The only alternative that I Oscar for "Room at the Top." by this time next year the accepted someone like myself.
can see would be to make Fagin
Chichester Festival Theatre will Thackr film together will he THIS book is the twenty-sixth in Hutchinson's a cockney, but then that's got
which be totting up the takings from bouse-warming its first 10-week season. remarkably successful New Authors satellite-nothing to do with Dickens-you shot entirely in Dublin,
ax well use the same means that the
for Sir Laurence's new Brighton series. Unlike all but one of its predecessors it approach to Shylock."
He reflected a monent. "But home will have to be postponed. purports to be fact-the autobiography of a 38-I suppose they may have to tone fal" he will have to five in While he is shooting Term of year-old Australian cane-cutter who emigrated it down at that from Wales in 1950.
Yet Mr Naish's
self-portrait
hay---so the blurb explams
By
might
cluded.
"be con-
They may indeed. Guinness's "Oliver Twist" (Anthony New- ley played Dodger) was banned for two years in America on of its "blatant anti- Semitism."
It was only after 11 minutes he of the film-all featuring Fagin cut that it was had been
been "cunningly heightened by RICHARD FINDLATER account
the storyteller's art." And wonder, indeed, heightening hasn't gone
this whether
too far.
bit
At times his life-story seems a shade too vivid and compact, touched up as it is with rather self-conscious toughness, purple
and Welsh prose cant.
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With humour and pathos describes chilahova aramas
Welsh industriai lown, thefinally granted a showing. terrors of sexual experiment in adolescence; the boozy, despair- ing jollity of a warlane leave; rhetorical two
landladies, in Blocmsbury and Brisbane; and his apprenticeship to Aborigine in cane-cutting.
THE EPISODES
But there is no doubt that Mr Naish is a born novelist or short story-writer and, occasional
eccentric
ALL
Signoret plays
Mr Naish's other Antipodean the shrike
have included
jobs, it seems, those of a nuvvy, gravedigger,
Ireland.
The magic worked by a dreamer
A
no
OPTIMISM
Ever
or
Many have found Mr shed-Martin's optimism some would say cheek- even more staggering.
In the past two years Mr Evershed-Martin--The Founder, as he's now titled-has leased a wonderful site for 99 years
a small rent; raised £64,000 from 900 subscribers towards the total cost of £105,000 ("I don't want subsidies or a penny on rutes because that way made a a critic of every commissioned ar- chitects and builders; travelled
Here is this local business man w an ex-Mayor of Chichester, it's the true who saw Sir Tyrone you've Guthrie talking on television ratepayer"), about the theatre-in-the-round
this
was what for his own city:
he
an
where an international
drame
the
said this
uf
course, Olivier
and,
at Stratford, Ontario, and decid- to Stratford, Ontario, to see for
himself ed that
how an arena-theatre MAN with a dream is wanted
works;
his now, seen theatre seating 1,400 dream half-way realised. rarity, but Leslie arena
London Express Service, Evershed-Martin, with his festival of the most competitive sandy hair, sober suit, and excellence can be staged. smiling pride, has magic "I'm no authority besides. How else could he theatre, you know," produce frum an idle deceptive dynamo,
the bones and
"It's great fun, miner, bookmaker, barman, SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER'S thought clerk and fruit-picker. Writing next leading lady will be muscles and brain of 3 talking to people like stylistic excesses, one
brand-new-built, daringly and Anthony Quayle and Flora Simone Signoret. Their film different theatre in less together: "Term of Trial," in than three years? And per- which Olivier plays a shabby suade Sir Laurence Olivier schoolmaster in a back street to become its director? secondary school. Miss Sig- noret agreed the other night to play his attractive but It was noisy with workmen, and I shrike-tongued wife.
in spite 01
"interest." Yet is merely an this book bears the mack of a professional.
of the beauties of this wry, en- dearing autobiography is that it leaves so much out.
Instead of smothering the It is a book, what's more, reader with memories and which makes one look forward straining for continuity, Mr to a sequel, in which Mr Naish Naish
focuses
eleven will fill in some of the tantalis
ugh, ing gaps, and tell us more separate episodes with a controlled and apparently what it's like to be a New Aus-
од
candid command of dialogue.
tralian.
of
Mr Evershed-Martin
me
over
walked
his dream recently.
colourless as only concrete can
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