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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.

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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

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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

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con-

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