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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1957.

"Oh! Mr Osborne,

how

A FEW months ago, when my wife and I were

returning to town after a game of golf in the country, our car was held up by the traffic in Sloane Square. Actually we were anchored just outside the entrance of the small Sloane Square Court Theatre where, more than thirty years ago, a few of us tried to save Shaw's play Heartbreak House, which the critics had assailed with such shafts of wit as Headache House, and Jawbreak House and other variations on the same theme.

of

do you do it?"

The Russians were very ment that was giving night nice to me". ho sald rather mares to nlee old ladies all apologetically. "They did every over Britain. thing they could to make my it pleasant but the women, poor things, bre so drab and everything so dull".

Then we tell to discussing is going to play the lead in my

forthcoming prenitere

"Oh, by the way," ho said a we opened the garden gate to the street, "my wife, Mary Ure,

tho

of pley on Broadway." It seemed an aside that had just his play on Broadway. "It like won't go down with the Ameri- occurred to him. cans," he said. "It will be an

whole incident faded awful Nop."

In an attempt to cheer him from our minds, but soon we Ts were to be reminded of angry up. I argued that there

-LONDON LETTER

Tho

by Sir Beverley Baxter

he shook his

the

is that it is dead. It is a gold mule, luas no pride of ancestry Alling in a mouth full of decay." or hope of progeny. Obviously Thus did he out-plp the peers. John Osborne has never known who had started the game. real poverty, nor have the gates But there was a Than who of opportunity been barred to decided to play Banque io him. His pen has not been Osborne's Macboth. The mon directed against those who have in question was no less than succeeded in life, but rather the headmaster of the public to explain and dramatise school where Osterne went as ineffectual He does not ask us a boarder, the Xamo of the to give them sympathy nor does he sea any special virtue in the school being Delmont College.

fnet that the young man in his *

play cannot get more than one Therefore the headmaster or two notes from his carnet. took to his pen, when he road

Yet, such is Osborne's genius hle ex-pupil's tirade and that he can make us feel a touch announced publicly that of pathes and dusty beauty in Osborne, when onc of his the very fact that the young pupils, got three young boys man docs blow into the

Gazing from our car, Wa saw that the current attraction was the much discussed play Look Back In Anger by John Osborne, who had become

under his influence and started instrument and produces sound more or less the recognised

a.reign of terror throughout the of a kind. leader of the Angry Young

school.

When

Osborne Was Men movement which had

Well, what happened in this nothing the theatre public in young men by the vicious and between 14 and

10 years old, seeped a way into London's

Look Back In

outburst Auger? New York enjoys more than a caddish

of Lord he was found with a bottle

Somehow, perhaps reluctant- play West End As the trafe in the

Nothing....nothing at all. But play based upon utter hope- Altrincham and his pip-qurak elder and refused to give it up. ly, playwright Osborne touches Square showed no signa

the Marquis of The headmaster struggled with the conctions though we do not moving, I darted in to the box here was a magnituent moment lessness. I reminds the tycoons imitator,

This was

was unsuccessful know why. In short, he has with the near the end when the author of their early days and makes Londonderry.

100 him, but office and came out

for John

his eaused himself to recount how them feel good when they see much

Osboro's Next day the headmaster spoke genius although he does only two tickels available.

how far their lot has been vanity. In bearing he Is to Osborne in front of the whole damndest to conceal the fact. It is hard to my when or he once got himself engaged to

n daughter of country improved. But

Ra itself, but modesty

No wonder the school and Osborne gave him how this strange Angry Young the

be a flop," he uncrowned

the Now York king of

No angry an

him. Men manifestation

the family. She asked me to meet head; "It will of

family.

master

can All London thereupon I took one look at repeated.

youth, he obviously felt that his

clapped wonder ho We the human spirit took form

and the mother

Then I had a bright Idea. followers would expect some Osborne's face, and in return theatre at his choosing. The recalled how, after the 1914- her

dend,

"Mr Osborne, I will buy a one ullerance on the subject. So, Osborne did the same to the confounded fellow can write 1918 war, there emerged the chivalry was

called headmaster. magazine surrendered; third interest in the American selecting a

even g Peluctantly 1

discordance, The future play- and night club and jazz age, with

you essence of rights of your play, the alterative plquancy and this was the very

of will be sure of having enough ncounter, Osborne decided to wright was immediately expel creates a harsh beauty. At any ugliness of

led, which may have been the rate I thought you might. Uko the short skirt drema. This was style

beginning of his ultimate anger, to know about the angry young craze, and we thought that dialogue that thrust itself like to get to New York and back." air his views on Royalty.

"Oh no," he said; "I couldn't one's brain. No

ctn "Nobody

seriously

It must be put on record that man who came to my garden perhaps this new cult Was B a dari inta

could

the Royal round when the story was published in St John's Wood, and was as somewhat belated offspring of matter how puerile the plot and do that." That was all I

the pro following his attack the theme, I get from the mild, soft-spoken pretend that the Hitler war,

the mild and gentle as a milk fed how decadent

and thus the of gracious boredom,

fatuity, a Montrchy, he admitted the in- llon. At 7,30 that evening we re- found my mind dancing with suburbanite,

mildly cident, but not all the detalls. I wish that I could look back turned to tho Square and delight. It was destructive with luncheon came to an end. A focol of ancient

"My this stimulating," he wrote,

There is no moral to my told in anger at him, but it is just been more gentle found that our seats were in the very irony of uselessness. It milk fed kitten could not have politically useful the front row, with the result was a superb drama without

the royal symbol unless it be that genius, like the not possible, move objection to os with all leader of the Bery new that when the curtain rose we plot. Somewhere, seemed to be almost

Osborne had part of born dramatists,

was

ago

of

the sordid and untidy scene touched the emotions in the which greeted our eyes,

very moment of mocking them. We went home with a feeling akin to ecstacy because of the author's sheer bravede of the genlus.

At one side of the stage, a nice looking slut was ironing

had clothes. On the floor, two young

Actually John Osborne men were lying on

Just returned from a visit to stomachs reading and discuss Russia, so, next day I sent him ing the London Sunday new- a telegram asking him to lunch

his

their

Com

here was no

papers. The younger of the two blasted

wes not a cornet now and then, at my house.

wholly but convinced both

reply, which Le turned up and we drank a panions and the audience that unexpected, but at one o'clock he would never bother learn

rt glass of sherry in the garden. how to play It properly. It seems that off stage there was the two h.condy stall which men operated, but they could

entered

the

or

been more modest assuming.

☆

you

(dl me

of

than

Insolent reply. The head- critics acclaimed

on

It's a 7-day-a-week job few women would like

WOULD YOU MARRY A PARSON?

COMPETITION

to

Afind the test clergy

by the Rev. ROBERT COLEMAN Vicar of St. John's, Ealing

be known

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3. THE HOME LOVER.

A real gem, and a bargain at my price. Many clergy "Wives seem to think there is some- thing un-Christian in caring and

for the home, busband, children, while ignoring plens

A parson's wife (she used to, tonishing words: cycles to tennis

"the prieste's as her husband walks to wor woman") must be careful with ship. Fortunately she is rare, her tongue too. Her own opinion is often construed as "really the 2. THE DO-GOODER. vicar's words."

At the same time, when ap- Seventy-five per cent of meetings, proached on all manner of sub- vienrage wives fall into this jects-strong feelings about the category. She dare not let her parties,

himself; outing, unknown hymns, draug- husband do his job

to run

organisations, tako conduct working and attend to whist however,

drives. Each year,

It

He seemed taller and leaner than on the stage and his man- wife in Britain would dis- her, was gentle and respectful.

cover not only beauty, but alone knows

what Henven not bother answering the bell thoughts were going on inside also character and courage. when SOMILQUE

his head but he could not have For who would marry shop.

un-parson? They were reading and mock-

Consider the job. Your hus- Ing the Sunday newspapers, and

bond is at home in the morning could not be bothered about

when you would rather he were such things as candies

"WI

about out;

he is out in the evening peppermints. When would some- thing happens? But soon wo Russia?", I asked, "or are you when you wouldn't mind having

him al home. He eats a hearty ty alsics behaviour of the, she must help him. She ferrets there are more recruits to the realised that this was a dif- red of talking about it?"

"I meal

(provided by you) at curate, "Oh, no!", ho answered.

rift in the Mother's out little pieces of news, learns ranks of the Home Lovers. ferent kind of play. Mr John

to talk about I. I'd lunch time and, when supper Union-there is always the de- of forthcoming births, and in- What the viear's wife does Osborne of the suburbs had want

never been there before, In comes, is keen for more. And layed reaction: "Was I meant to

quires kindly of wives she meets do nothing In the parish? written a play to amuse him-

never a week-end free. mention that to my husband?"

else an oppor in the street as to whether their gives someone self, not the audience. I wished fact I've never been anywhere you've

Clergy wives fall into three husbands have been a little funity to help. And too many that I could say that he Suc- very much.

The clerygman's wile who recognisable types:-

more kind to them of late. vicarage children (not to men- but that

Where was the anger of this

herself Is childless may And eceded in boring me

tion vicars) have that lost and ile, Admittedly the young man? Would he at some would be a

in a 20-room 1. THE SHOCKER, Never absent from church, uncared-for look because when she sits in a special pew mark they return home from school, talk of newspapers was music, stage of the conversation tell house-keeping

rectory, while the mother of me just what he thought of

There is so much hypocrisy ed "Vicarage," carefully but un- "Mummy is out running her even if discordant musle, to my

M. P. ko myself four may have to rent a fiat

can be and narrow-mindedness even obtrusively noticing who is pre- cars. Nearly all my adult life Tory

meeting." that this sent or obsent. She gives her I have lived and worked to the Nothing would have surprised until the new vicarage

type reacts by trying to shock report to her husband at lunch, I say n vicar's wife should re- roaring serenade of the print me excep; what actually did built. And have you ever tried among church-goers

washing a surplice? ranting or

people out of their smugness. offering to call later and dis fuse to be turned into an un- ing press. Words, words, words lappen. Without

fascinating.

dan indulging in irony be described The parson's wife is open to Let them know, she says to her cover if there has been sickness paid curate. ... what gerous things they are! Hitler Russia 03 a dull, colourless, criticism from the congregation. self, that life is real, life is in the family.

a earnest, and the grave is not Mra Do-Gooder la u doss house in lifeless place where the women If she dresses plainly, it is rose from a

speaker and constantly were as drab as their clothes pity she is not a better adver- its goal."

A Accordingly she answers the mand. But, as she modestly in and the men were much ilsement for the church.

in sists, che lo so nervous she can beller. The only exception smart outfit, a touch of paint, vicarage door cheerfully

Blacks, playful scarcely stand up when the time was his delight at seeing the high heels, can bring raloed eye- tight-fitting

hand earrings, drooping cigarette. She comes. In some cases Mrs D.-G. Crown Jewels of the late Tears brows and back of the

lards her conversation with as is known as Mrs Vicar.

Vienna to the dictatorship of Germany on a roaring cascade of words, but when he put Europe to the sword he was hammered

to defeat and death by the words of Winston Churchill,

not

In the Palace at Leningrad. whispers: "So worldly."

BATHCHAIR RANK

If we are to continue the long great and illustrious no of famous in de sona and daughters of the vicarage, rectory, and manse, names that have justly made Britnin famous, we cannot get along without the parson's wife. But would you marry a parson?

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