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HERE is a singular
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It was Churchill who, in- magic in such a word, evitably, recalled "the mag- for no reason known nificent trure who presided grendeur and
to an except that wer
mat-
By JAMES CAMERON
Is
his kind now knows so much genium at the Elizabethan science. it eraves for small nge"-Churchill, who has sorceries, thinking. that never been anything but an
the victim cf a tradition of new lives begin with New Elizabethan, for that
adultery and indiscriminately Yeurs: another reign means ter; however he may per pluh-lined prose, but another chance.
versely protest his Vic- nothing nothing at all—te the Lorianism, Winston's blood fantastically fulsome and syco- flows straight from a. Tudor med necessary to get the nod phantic Overstatement that
frein Elizabeth I
I know that I have but the body of weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart ti Klan, and of a King of England, too.
tap.
Today, then, we are all Elizabethans. - This is
a golemn thought. There hav been none of us for 349 years. The slack to take up is enormous. We are Eliza - bethany
fron separated
those others. by, three ! a half centuries of time and an incalculable abyss of the spirit. Tocky Christopher means Mayhew, not Mur lowe;
Shakespeare does scripts for Olivier; madrigals are strictly Third Programme.
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A typical pedometer watch, inspired by Abram-Loube Petreka's prototype, Nons
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Abram-Louis Perrelet, 1729-1826
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The nigh ge
To the troops assembled at Tbury, in 1588, To oppose the Spanish Armada.
She
Gloriana,
was she
was the Fair Vestal, she was "Our Clodi
Eartho"
evea
purists
11 ke
Is the "Golden
ker 50th
that smashed the French anelen valme two hundred years later.
"Defence" expenditure
Was
not only unnecessary but un- heard of-no army to maintain, and an all-powerful Private Enterprise Navy controlled by anointed freebooters.
It is a long way back between the last Queen of the Tudors and the first of the Windsors,
roy
The physical difference seems ! to be vast, Elizabeth I, a beauty to her dying day, "small-eyed, her nose hooked,
yet
and with teeth black; still
hez
hands slender and fine; on
her
hend
the red wig, apparolled most gorgeously in pearls size of beans,"
the
(For all the pomp, she got somehow known as Good Queen, Bass-a diminutive most un- Ikely for Elizabeth II, who will surely remain Elizabeth; in any case it so happens that Eliza- beth, as a name, is incapable of improvement.)
Atomme Pyle
the same
were risked being corrupted and mis- lulercusly small, with some odd
first Elizabeth would being corrupted as brave centrasis. Elizabeth's England make it a day's ride from writing used, doggedly of her and ray.
WOS Inhabited by perhaps, 4,000,000 people about half the London to Chelsea; the second Haired Nymph" There was much to deplore Rizo of London today;
time from with makes when she was in the ships had their privileged London itself then as big Uganda. Our Elizabethan poets -
year pirates jotting couplets on deck, Brighton is now,
are all in the Arts Council; the man with the lute has gone, co and wore a red and dying slaves below; the wig.
Edmundo Ros. we have
The The English were noted over farmers prospered but the Irish
Tudors got their revelations Thin was far died; the lyricists in their satin Europe for their abundance of
doublets
could from time to meat-the
cur from displeasing
wage-earners could from Drake and Raleigh,
have names explorers
ilke to the
time watch a Jesuit burned at cat if they could not vote. Queens,
Cockcroft and Whittle, who ratifica the the stake. But Elizabeth's Eng-
escaped legend by pro- land
the Inquisition, Elizabeth found her solution
Perhaps they do not lose on timing ban csenged the religious martyr to the religious war by steering the deal. Today we are all
and murders of France, a canny Anglican course be- portrait- dons
tween the Pope and the Puri-ation need boast of its Eliza-
Elizabethang together-and painters who had creed in the re full of questionable values and
Elizabeth produced a kingdom dans.
bethan Ten Shoppe when it can Presentation of her
Majesty's dubious moral behaviour,
Mining was expanding fast- own an Elizbethan Atomme the person, favour the one thing it was not wos a the sudden use of coal explains Pyle. Which is grobably
bore. The sins were not squalid; the proliferation of chimneys in only thing apparent today that Even the vices had bravura, Elizabethan architecture,
The Shakespeare could not hayo.. She had a sensational love of
habit of the uppercrust families It is obvious herself, yet she was the smartest
that Elizabeth's of sending their sons into trade stateswoman ever to wear a task, compared to today's, was prevented the vicious divisions
Monday: The Victorians crown, and there flourished
good grows with her In her days every man shall eat in safety. Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours: Ged shall be truly known; and those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by those claim their greatness, not by blood,
1
-Shakespeart quxdi grace."
It was, in fact, a period full of simultaneous Winston Churchills, if such a thing, dare be imagined under her a coinmunity of pic- public men with protean turesques and poets, rakes and writers, bravos and graceful gifla, literary politicians, people that has never been resounding men to whom matched in three hundred and the gesture and the expres. fifty years of hurd trying.. sion thereof meant every- thing, who could very properly be jumped on for their sentimenta but seldom for their syntax.
It was the Golden Age of England, and the Magni- fcent Figure who presided was much more the domina tion of it than any sovereign has been since, or will be again.
Between the Golden Age of 1558 and the Plastic Age of 1952 lies every imaginable historic mull: between the personalities of the two Elizabethis lles every outward difference.
Mer red wig
A reign to which were given Cecil, Durleigh, Sidney and Raleigh. Spenser and Marlowe
In
Has
but-
These Islands
Become Part
Dancing Of Life
(By A Special Correspondent)
Jonson, Hawkins and Grenville Dekker, Bacon, Chapman and
and Drake, has the basis of a team that might reasonably be said to have been as distin- guiched as the world has ever HE sinuous, rhythmic also personal magnetism and an moilong of known,
are of rich
As
climax, in case T movements of the expressive face,
this era should lack the world's
Their
costumes
supreme commander of English dances of the East, per- wards, came William Shake-formed as a religious ritual brocades, woven with gold speace.
in the temples centuries thread or applique with thin hammered gold; rich jewels ago, were once aimed to adorn them. drive away the evil spirits, Or, portrayed with supple gracefulness, they asked for blessings from
"Higher Brings" above.
Brought poetry
been
the
Tiers of flowers fixed to crown of gold like a setting aun form the headdresses of the girls,
a
DO
their limbs which move slowly and sinuously.
The Bagas favourite theme.
of love are a
The, "Kelono" dance depicts a king making final arrangements to his dress before the arrival of his beloved. He orders his headdress, his jewels, and hia clothes and looks into the mir- ror where he suddenly sees vision of her. Only then
а
COD
pHE Crown exerted its power directly through the Privy Counell, and the Prerogative Counts; the personality of the From these early riles there
Of the two hundred Balinese he hardly suppress his emotions. dances, three
are performed ruler was a greater factor than developed other forms,
most often; One, the "Legong," it has
The dancers were called on to here for generations. The woman,
Pantomime, performed by who could simper appear before glittering oriental for flattery, yet ride through courts. And they portrayed, in three girls, is one of the oldest her soldiers at Tilbury deelaim- movement, epics and sages to and most delicate of all. rel there exist the
battle, entertain potentate ing her wish to die in
and cour- parallels; bith acceded at 20, chowed two sides of a complex tiers. both inherited a country that and extraordinary character. was financially on the rocks, of
AND
Delicately performed is the "Serimpl," which portrays in- iriguca of two princesses to win Another, the "Kebylar," is the heart of the same lover. In unique. It is performed sitting order All the stage and get or squatting; position is changed symmetrical positions for the of the knees, while expression dances, the two princesses is concentrated in the hands, joined by two other girls. ormis And face. A modern
Now, in Indonesia expecially, which the currency had fallen After the despolism of Henry, dancing has become part of life in value,
in which the majur the intrigues of Edward, the itself. theme of alshouse argument barbaritics of Mary, she pro-| was the soaring cost of living, duced something that, for ultl- For the Indonesian people have donce, it is performed by a (There 1.9 ୯୯ a statistic mato good or 1, taught her a highly developed Besthetic young man who interprets the available: between 1501-1500 people to be English.
sere. And they take artistic mood of the music, food prices rose 170 per cent,
expression for granted as part wages only 68 per cent.)
of each man's birthright, and
are
In the other islands, dances are less intrtente. Best known and most spectacular in Sumatra is the candle dance. Long ago, it She taught them in a curlous
expressed gratitude to the rice- ly geroral way, to be creators.
as a natural part of life Itself.
goddess after a rice-harvest; Having sald that, however, The machines had not come to
The third, the "Janger," is but now it portrays a prince you have sald just about All Trainin the craftsmen. A late
Performers receive Intensive only about thirty years old, and assisted by his lady attendants There is on regard about
For the Renaissance altered through the training.
have its verve and exuberance is searching in darkness for his tough side of Elizabethan life; grammar schools to the streets developed to standard of characteristic of the age. It betrothed's missing ring. for the rest it wns all cliber and the theatre. Peelry was the technical perfection that makes danced by a group, of about seadogs or sauneta.
unself-conscious currency of them a difficult selence, require twenty people; two rows of Eastward, in the Celebese.
and
nad
up
11
dunces
of young men flank them, in which a young man strives tcrming a square, and the for the affection of the "girl,
the singing and
movement, who at first remains indifferent embody the spirit of brightness to him, and only In the end and galety.
surrenders to his charm.
of special physical girls free each other, two rows most popular is the 'Menar]," Above it all: Elizabeth. She the tavern and the village green. ing years
A Commercial Middle Class training and practice. belling is a bizarre end ture. She was proud and vain rose; the Citizen Mercers end bad- Caizen Haberdashers piled capricious
their sprawling menors every. tempered and vengeful; the dreked unit hurt; she coun- where,
The oceans became texanced
a chal rascals and SEVO favour
the lenge the Plantagenet urge to brigands, but stamped her foot into the clay conquer France had gone, jhero of this land and people are re was no Inhibiting Empire to be watched, the buccaneers could cording it still, Like this.
curiously over a world The characters of Royalty are largely unknown, with Hakluyt Indeed hard to evaluate, The to chronicle them. It was the monarchy in our time has been, birth of everything that one day
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In Ball, the brown-skinned, colourful youth devote much of their
In Java, too, the daicos de-In every island, the dances spare time to the art
their own. styles. But The rhythm of the orchestra is mand years of practice. Unlike have livelier, the costumes more the
Balinese, the faces of the from them, new forms are now gorgeous, and the movements Javanese dancers remain like being sought to
NOW unmoving and expres national dances, which can be more vigorous and defined than madaks, In the other islands.
and sionless. All the forces of their performed
understood Not only do Balinese dancers emotions and characterizations throughout the whole archipe require agility and grace, but, aro revented by the languid lago,
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