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"OH, WELL, I WAS HAVING INSOMNIA, ANYWAY

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A QUESTION TO EVERY YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN:

Have your parents

failed?

DAVID HUGHES, under- graduate of Christ Church, Oxford

This is what he says:

You give aspirins to a world that needs imagination

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Is it our fault that religion is in decline, that churches are no longer full? These things were passed on to you.

PROGRESS YOU SAY that yours was a progressive civilisation opening

and out into industry

the peaceful arts. What have you. done with that promise?

You have contrived to usher in the atomic age.

In practice, you

ECEI

us

to solve your problems by the but datal method of simple

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Shavian Boom Seen Ahead

By RONALD ROPER

London, Jan. 18. New Vic Company--average age XYITH Bernard Shaw 20. The eyes which look out. Over Shylock's beard are those #till in the news of 28-year-old Powys Thomas, through his secretary Miss one-time Bevin boy and ex- Patch's new biography Royal Navy; Charmian Eyre (23) "from the inside," the en- sa: Jill Showell, a teen-ager, is

counts as an experienced Nerio tertainment world seems to said to have got into the Old be on the brink of another Vic School when she was under

10. Shavian boom.

It siaris at the Embassy, The youthfulness of this talent Swiss Coltage, on January 23 Inevitably produces mixed re- nctions among the audience. "It with "Pygmalion," the play La an advantage" says a critic, about the young lady whom "because the players bring to culture secks to demonstrato Shakespeare tresh and unspoiled : that culture is only a matter of minde; a disadvantage because environment and atmosphere they are not yet artful enough to conceal their inexperience of until, caught off her guard, sho life. lota slp the lurid word for which Pygmalion thenceforth became a cuphemism,

ble."

"Let me put it that they have a succulent relish of lovely words and no time-earned sense of the Incidentally H new. Shaw poignancy such words can bring

If genius is legend has it that the great man to the spirit:

Intuitive faculty of interpreting himself used the word only life without experience of life, twice in his life-In the play and then there is no genius in this when, throwing down his pen at production. But, there is any the last of the 200,000 words amount of talent, and the lovely which went into "An Intelligent words are at least never. Inaudi- Woman's Guide to Folitico," be ejaculated to his wife: "It's- It Was "The Merchant

Venice," by the way, with which Lilian Baylis celebrated the pre- Miss Patch's revelation that senting of the first complete Shaw was a victim of a common Shakespeare play over gut on at hallucination of the wealthy in the Old Vic, which formerly had old age-that they are on the only a music-hall licence. The verge of bankruptcy-in further present company will soon be confrmed by the fact that when taking their production on tour "Pygmalion was revived at in Holland.

well finished!"

Hammersmith in his fetime Shaw declined to allow. Its transfer to the West End be- cause it would only cost him more income tax.

man". opens at the New

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of

TONDON'S first major operatic

event of the year is voted a success. It is a Sadler's Wells performance of a reduced ver- sion of Verdi's "Don Carlos."

That the original was overlong

Now comes Norman three- act

quick concession-the psychta- NEXT month "Man and Super.. trist for the unruly child, the succession of five stiling rises Theatre. Campbell Dixon recalls and tedious. was realised by

the for

discontented worker, that this was the play which Verdi himself and he cut out

Shaw's reputation the disintegration of the Empire established with the the demand at

of small

young generation, one act. largely because it dared to dia- Tucker's ticnaliam.

cuss, carly this century, the sub- which, though it may have It looks

if your fect of unmarried mothers. No

of method was little more than the doubt it was equally characteris sacrificed a certain amount swift use of the aspirin bottle; tle of Edward VII, that he was stage pomp, has also mercifully and we shall be left with a re- said to have laughed so much at omitted those parts of the score

of your headaches after a Court performance of the play considered bad, turn"

that he broke his chair. all.

One more TALKING of what you have lost when did you lose the sense of mission in the world- the mission to teach the British way of life to the world?

think that you We dare to have the wrong idea of incen- tive. You seem to think It lives in a man's pocket instead of in his spirit,

But then, your heroes were men like Shaw, Wells, and Galsworthy,

weakened who conviction of rightness

your

to us na

version

With the aid of conductor -And yet

Despite on ankle injury from Michael Mudie, who rightly re- ski-ing, John Clements, received a big share of the plau- VET-thank you. In spite of hearing in "Man and Super- dits, and of a producer new to

all this, you are entitled to man," which he will also manage our gratitude. You have equan- at the New, probably through opera-George Devine of the Clements Old Vic-the Sadler's Wells dered our heritage, but you the Festival season, have given us something better, plays Tanner in a company In Company rise to a splendid, pre- cluding Kay Hammond (Anne You have by default, created Whitefield), D. A Clark-Smith Sentation which incidentally a need, an opportunity-a living (Ramsden) and Michael Modwin marks the 50th anniversary of

Verdi's death." chance to build a world better (Stroker).

Slr Laurence Olivier, who has Individual credit goes ET us get this clear of war and looked forward, and made fortunes out of you than the one you talk of

If we can fend off the atomic. first-the young are to a future bright with doing it.

YOU SAY you discovered new threat, the last consequence of bad tentative plan for mare Frederik Sharp for his inter-- always happy because hope, until 1914 struck a methods in dealing with human your actions, we, the disinherit Shaw, with roles for himself and pretation of Hoderigo:, Fhilip II.

his wife Vivien Leigh, may in is presented with superb will make and they have their youth. But blow at your complacency. affairs. You call them by fire ed of history,

of Shakespeare, preferably James Johnston is Don Carlos when you, who are now old, This peace is the founda- names like the freedom of the bequeath to our children a new, the circumstances veer in favour thority by Stanley Clarkson; self-expression, the estate of human happiness. "Othello." Hla Imunodlate in and Hervey Akin the Grand In- --London Express Service.terest, however, is opa-The quisitor. The women artists were young you had many tion of happiness. You had individual, other things besides. it, you lost it, so we have it liberation of the human spirit.

Consul" which he is putting on include Joan Hammond (Queen These things were a not.

at the Cambridge Theatre be Elizabeth) and Shuard (Prin= cause the St James's hasn't suit coss Eboй). heritage passed on to you

WEALTH

able space for a numerous or- chestra.

by your fathers and were YOU SAY you had FOUR MOVE OUT

OF PARADISE

From NEWELL ROGERS-

due to be passed on to us, wealth. You talk and write Somehow you have lost of the days when a golden them, and this is the bur- sovereign was worth 20 den of our complaint against shillings anywhere in the the middle-aged and the world, and when you could old.

have anything you fancied, We judge you out of your abundantly and cheaply. own mouths. In books, in It is cold comfort to us conversation, in newspapers, who look like living austeri- con hear about that brave we lives all our days to tell old world where you were us what a lovely world you happy, secure, and con- blew away. fident.

MORALITY The crowning irony is

YOU SAY yours was a that you blame the young moral world. You boast for your loas. You say that that your fathers and

But Paradise is barred to Mr SCIENTISTS in the weather they are immoral, irrespon- mothers lived together in and Mrs Elmer Farr and Mr and bureau are working towards sible and feckless. They perfect amity, that their Mes Dick Wingatt by the flaming weather predictions year are not. But who could be marriages, were not torn tongues of public opinion. ahead. But there may be some

New York, Jan. 18. Vegas, dotted with casinos, in THERE will be four fewer sumptuous resort hotels; has never known such good business. in Farndise tomorrow.

Yet fears of ruin haunt the Tonight there are 2,859 in

goming-rooms. In nearby de- the California town of that seris new atom-bomb tests will name perched 1,850ft, up in be held. Will the customers stay the gorges of the Sierra at roulette tables when the big- gest gamble of all gets under Nevada mountains.

way?

weather is like 30,000ft. over Siberia.

surprised if they were? apart by moral indifference. Until yesterday Mrs Forr was delay. For these forecasts they Wouldn't you be if you had Why this laxity today, Ms Wingett, and Mrs Wingelt will have to know what the been robbed of a fine heri- you ask, why this crime? was Mrs Farr. tage?

Ask yourselves. You are

Then the two couples motored Five losses. the guilty ones. You sowed across the. Mexican border, get THERE are five rich prizes the seeds which have deve- "quickie" divorces, and changed which you enjoyed and loped into such a poisonous mates in a double marriage.

Said they: "It is for our happi- in your lifetime have lost growth.

nose and, the best interests of for us.

RELIGION YOU SAY yours was a

But Paradiso doesn't like it.

BRITISH PICTURES "Trio" and "Quartet" have been, such a success in America that Holly- Wood has now registered "Duo" and "Quinte!" with the title burenu:

AIMEN are to have uniforms

tailors. atted by

And the

PEACE OF MIND YOU SAY you had peace religious world. To hear And tomorrow the Wugetts American males who manage to of mind. You tell us that you talk one would almost and Faiz move.

atay out of unifórm are to be Was D

"the new all- Britain was aupremo in the think that yours

ACROSS the mountains from afflicted with world, an example to all generation of saints and Paradise les America's most houette"-tapered waists and nations. You had no fear ours of pagans,

luxurious gambling hell" Las shoulders.

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"I advise those who, with abundant reason, consider, opera in London nowadays' to be. nn irrational entertainem Scott Goddard, "to see this pro- MEANWHILE we've just had duction. There is no point in Ma Shakespeare first-night, bandying comparative virtues of "The Morchant of Venice is singing or acting. The cast were- thelt level equal 'and. notable this tone for being per- as one, formed at the Old Vic by the admirably satisfying."

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