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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1958.

KING'S PRINCESS Sacred

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He'd loved her and let her

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Sacred Flame'

Flame' ALGERIANS GO Dated But Impressive

By JOHN LUFF

The first thing a critle should nak himself when going to see a play is what is the playwright trying to do. Ан "The Sacred Flame" is a dated play (but I hasten to add that the Garrison Players have removed the dat- ing cliches) we have to look at the Somerset Maug- ham of thirty years ago.

It was the period when "The Bright Young Things" were be inning to fide; when the line "Yes, I'm going to have a baby' По

Charing longer shocked Cross Road.

the role that carries the play. the vajdictive character of the nurse being merely tho fell for the more restrained and con. trolled character of the mother. What delighted me with In fact, at the down of the Miss Tomblin's portrayal of Mrs period when at last the adult Tabret was the way she played action of the British Isles ac- those scenes where Maugham

a character go off knowledged that the primitive has qualities of procreation still smail soliloquy, yet by expres- muintuth

of the slom, small gesture, and lively

Taman race.

countenance, I felt Janet Tom- blin had got into the skin of the part.

the survival

All this mut seem dreadfully ofd fashioned to the young play- Roer of today, bul yesterday, it seemed daring. terribly advanced, and many playwrights were pillorled before they zo away with

Noel Coward was the high priest об the adventurous younger Ret, and although Somerset Maugham agreed with many of Mr Coward's Cheories he did not like the way Mr Coward went about it. Dull People

MY

Maugham said that if you

Kving

natural to have dialogue ou the stage, dull people saying dull things, then slay the only thing to do is

away from the theatre and ge to any restaurant und listen to people talidag

On the other hand, if you ars going to have ordinary every- day dialogue, then have CX- ceptional people. Or if you have ordinary propia, ther hove axcoptional dialogue. In other words, put lyrical prose into the mouths of suburban house- wlyes.

Thus we get The Flame."

Sacred

Now, I don't try to give advice as to what pur Jocal companies should play, Uut 16 their affair, but I feel in tackling

play like "The Sacred Flame," it is na well tụ know what you are about.

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Regarding production, 1 sve That Money O'Connell kept more or less to the script for business. The script has lan Vergen break down and cry.

This seems to me a bit anti- fcial, as though the minner

were out dialogue.

step with the

Enult assuming toy reactions were those generally felt.

Into u

The last minutes of the rol act are Miss Tomblin's.

I have rarely been so moved by a closing he delivered with such sympathy and Ensitive rendering.

June! Hanby his n long sustained role. Maughan de- mmands an awful lot in this play, June Hanby was best when on the attack, but the whole Lusiness of a runaway romance left me entirely unconvince People's lives do break on the rocks of Infatuation; beurta do break among prosaic surround- ings.

Hidden Firos

But somehow, the romanilo team of June Hanby and Roger Needel left

that me thinking there Mould have been hidden fres that al leant allowed the audience + flicker, now and again. to let them into tho Beorol.

Brian Slevin

and Edward) Harvester and Swiney as Dr Major Liconda were welcome additions to this very pe cast. Slevin has great presence, and he needs 11, for often he is on The stage at long intervals with nothing to do. Yet by Db intelligent following x the speaker's lines, he brought him- self into the play.

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U.S. JEW HATING

GROUP ALLEGED

Atlanta, Dec. 4.

An FBI undercover agent testified today that at least three of the five men indicted for bombing a Jewish temple in Atlanta were members of a national con- epiracy whose aim was extermination of Jews.

was part of, revolt last year. The testimony the State's charge that George Allen Bright, tirat of the men was a fanatic to stand trial, Anti-Semite whose strong racial feelings led to the October 12 dynamiting.

a possible

The listeners

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Conviction carries death sentence.

Leslie E. Rogers, an Atlanta

services Janitorial

contractor, plotuid he attended meetings of earlier this the racial grip year while acting as an under- euver agent for the FBI.

Mr Swinley has a fine speak ing volce and ready com- prehension of what the play de- топов. He added notably to the revealing Df the sequence.

Alice, the gnid, la litle more

от walking

part, dequiely performed by Molly Chambers As a

than

บ

sel.

Both the

piny production, the That is Maugham's proves the Garrison Players are

the ascendancy.

the lighting, and those dotally which stimp A per- formance nosterly ere there.

It is a good performance of a very difficult play.

Squirming

At ally

rate, 1 felt myself squirming in my seat as if I had been trapped in the room where I had no business to be. I have remarked before on lun Vet- Een's ability which 1 rate very high. But I feel he could have Improved

good per- 14 very formance had he studiesch part more and obtained a little of the high spirited Maurice Tabret's environment.

the

To Maughan, was one of Those young men who flew bits of wood sluck together with chewing gum. An eagle, winged in mid-fight. I say this with a genuine desire to help. Three sucresses in a row can give over- confidence, and I saw that last night

For naiance, a clever study of the part would have told Kan Vergen that he could move, but not bounce in the invalid chair. He was too animated physically; the parl requires a spiritual animation only.

Thus, the face, not the body. responds. Nevertheless, a per- formance to mark.

The row in front of me found some professional erities from the Queen Mary Hospital, and They deplored the ethics of Betty Roberts, the Nurse Way- land of the play.

But Maugham was a doctor, and Nurte Wayland

sketched from life.

Pure Ham

Maugham wives her

Kvas

Somo

lines that are pure ham, yet put over as Bolly. Roberts puttham over, with a sort of 'Let's have

Al last I can any of the Garri- son players, I hope Hongkong i9 good enough for you.

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He told reporters; "Wo were evicted this morning about eleven o'clock with Ministry of Works atletals present, together with court bailiffs, pollee, the Royal Society for Provention of Cruelty 他 Children and County welfare officers.

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POP

A showdown' attitudo,

they

Enges

were very effective.

But de stereotyped

of standing'square front 'stako, and loading the hand froin right to left, had mo withing for more variety In. Ner-geatures.

Taking it all round, it was a performance you. rarely find on the ametour'stage, and the way the lines were hissed out with suppressed' bitterness wqa good, Į very robil.

Which bringen to Jone Tamblin,

1' must admit this role had most of my "ationiliai, for allikasgh most people, snij hot agree, i think that i a

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"The avowed purpose of the party." Rogers suld, "was exter- mination of Jews and expulsion from Jews

responsible Govern- positions in the U.S inent, as understand i

Meetings of the local group were confined to four or members, he said.

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At these meetings they would discuss various activities such a of Ilterature, dissemination methods of spreading their baté doctrine and, on several occa- sions, treatment of Jews.

AL one meeting. he said, members received a report on than 100 Jews burneti alive during

Hungarian

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