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William Douglas Home,

most

persistent

of all playwrights

By RICHARD BERRY

Never in the history of the English stage has a theatrical lady been more

gallantly defended than Aunt Edwina.

Mercilessly shot down by the erilles ca the night of November 3. 1059, she was not expected to

10 cents PER WORD OVER 20urvive the week. Yet three

£20,000 offer to write a filmm script of Lolita."

One also suspects that he in- stinctively puts up a stubborn fight when principles are at stake. He has campaigned for prison reform and the abolition has of capital punishment. He attacked the Government over Suez and Cyprus. He was to the Bon. William Douglas demning the atom bomb

of all 1ome, most persistent

laywrights, who brought Aunt

montlas Inter there is evidence Births, Deaths, Marriages, she may be alive and kick Personal $5.00 per insertioning still. not exceeding 25 words, 25 cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA

Credit for this remarkable survival must go almost entirely

before VJ Day.

He has fought

con- even

unsuccessfully

as a Liberal Parliamentary can- didate.

if not prepaid a booking fee Edwina into the world and pre- of 50 conte le charged.

senteil her on the stage of the West End's Fortune Theatre.

William Douglas Home was Few people ented for his born 47 years ago, one of four favourite untie fox-hunting cons of the 13th Earl of Home colonet with the D.S.0, and two fnronounced Hume). bars who embarrasses his family his ancestors was Scottish Am-

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British newsletter from Peter Burgoyne A NEW EPOCH In Cinema Entertainment!

The railways issue is far

from over

London (By Airmail),

By the time you read this you should know whether or not the great railway strike has been averted.":

that

The enormity of the posdble barrier af the last minute and

complain paralysis of the British railway returning to systern is hard to imagine for they've missed their train. When anyone who does not know how we explain politely that the much Britain relles on its rail train, left on time they become

abusive."

ways.

Since the first primitive loco- motive sputtered from Stockton

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le Darlington In 1825 the intense economie life of these islands We're all being bitten by

has been built around the rail-

way systemTI..

the respectability these days.

Take commercial

bog

travellers,

Ages,

Over 17,000 locomotives haul freight and passengers over 51.000 miles of rail track. for instance. I'd always thought Nearly 59 million ten-miles of of them as vaguely raffish types, freight daily. About 24 million it successors to the nomadie commuters alone every day. chapmen of the Middle

And just one region, the central characters of countera Southern, carries

which begin, annually dublous stories

WEI this number of "There

commercial roughly the same prssengers as all the Class 1 traveller. railways of the USA.

Commercial travellers like it.

To do this, state-owned British Railways employs well over half a million men and women. Of these, 358,000 are members of the National Union of Railway- mon. (The others belong to the footplate union and the while collar union).

don't

This week the BBC staged a television play about them and carned a nasty rap on the knuckles from the general secre jury of the United Commercial Travellers' Association.

- Objection was taken to the principal character who, the "gave the

by Beachcomber workers who are threatening to UCTA complained,

IT

has been

to

pointed out me that the publicity given Waggling Parva to the Strabismus Lunatik at ittle

shows

of

concern for screcy.

by changing into A woman. Lassador to England in the 15th; I hasten to reveal that the Mr Douglas Home has since de- century; another led the van at signposts in the neighbourhood voted his time making people Flodden (Mr Home has written can be of no use to spies. They

a play about the battle).

care.

Distressed by the reviews, Home talked about the play to This father-in-law, Viscount 11ampden. Father-in-law thought Auntie deserved better trest- ment and the author resolved to fight for her life.

FTB KASY TO TELL which wiele your bread be buttered when you i prend it with Swiss Knight CheĞDU,

*l) {EX* sent locally post free in plain sealed envelopes. Homit 2 for Leiat ample

Every night after curtain fall he went on stage and appealed to the audiense to ignore the Surgieat' rubber goods grities and judge Aunt Edwing

and price tals. Buropean super- vision. Write to 'ersul service, 1.O. Box 0045. Kowloom.

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-Izalms 4:4.

We are not very well soqueint- ed with cur real selves, Shut out the world and cok inward, Liome changes may be indiented.

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Bli bear nctitious names.

These 365,000 are the railway- strike. Because the diners can impression of being indifferent not work without them, their in his dress and habits and that withdrawal of labour would is far removed from the typical shutdown of British commercial traveller." mean a

My apologies for having always and of London's vital

thought otherwise, Underground system.

The National Union of ball-strike The recent token

called but Rallwaymen

of the by Underground crews all

that national railway strike ott paralysed London. And

muy February 12 after accepting a was only a taste of what

five per cent pay rise offered by well be to come.

government).

They all want it.

Why are the railmen threaten- The four brothers have all Waggling Porva itself appears ing the nation with chaos? distinguished themselves as Thimblethwalte. and in the Simply because they want their differcul spheres, The road leading to it the signpost more money.

the NUR men. The eldesi, Alexander Frederick, says "Perth, 9 miles,' The Not Just

vital fact is that the NUR men now the 14th Earl, Is Secre- laboratories

лв disguised tary of State for Common-small shops, and the

hangar want money here and now,

substantial interim payment to which wealth Relations.

houses the rocket

Lide them over until an official William Douglas Home has fabelled: "Hay, no smoking."

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habit, daunting to his relatives and has a herd of cows ambling and friends, of caricaturing them round it and a yokel with a

on the stage. In The Chiltern straw In his mouth ht the

for themselves. He Wrote to Hundreds, for instance, the 13th entrance. All the scientists' and

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pay review committee appoint-

ed more than a year ago-makes its recommendations.

The other two unions want to

| newspapers and attacked critles Earl and the family butter, their asistents are dressed as wait for the committee report.

for "list-night buteliery."

He also sold his 1954 Bentley

for £1,500 and appeared, before the High Court to obtain

On

interia injunelion restraining Edwina's "angel" from closing the play.

TURNED DOWN £20,000

author's own

after the 100th performanec,

Collingwood, were lovingly disagricultural workers.

cuted.

Usually in his plays he takes

magnifying glass to people he A mountain grave knows well - duchesses, peers, ambassadors, debutantes. M.P.S

REFERENCE to the Ortier, attract him especially. He in the great Tirolese mountah,

plays in recalled

moving variably submits his manuscripts to his eldest brother inscription I saw in that part of the world, when I was walking near Trafoi. It mid-

for criticisms.

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The reason for this differesce of approach is the key to the whole messy situation.

the Both sides know that review committee is bound to recommend wege Increases. But there is only a certain amount of money available for this pur- pose and both sides strongly suspect that the biggest increases пасть footplate will go to the

and to (drivers and fremen) the white-collar workers who, by and large, are more badly than the mass of underpaid workers who make up the NUR. Therefore the footplate men white-collar workers ond the believe that it is in their interest her THE idea of segregaling pedes-to walt. And the NUR men bo

do better by trians frem motor traffe Is Beve they will

res

"Here lles" (I forget the "He doesn't always take any name) "Aged eleven. Though lice," says the Eari wanly, small, he hurried to God with but the plays are generally the steps of a ginn!." better when he does."

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Australia, New Zealand, FUI. 3 pan.

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Nerth Borneo, Sarawak, 6 pm. India, Egypt, Aden, 6 pm.

Just But the axe descended the same. After a highly dis- turbed two months

run, and after losing about £2,000 of the money, Aunt Edwina made her final curtsy at Chie 470-seater Fortune Theatre,

Mr Home's pretty, fair-haired|Suct on the war-path Undefeated, Mr Home

also studies his wife, Rachel, managed to fud her a temporary

between residence at the 800-seater Lyrie manuscripts in

chores as Theatre. She finished her run housework and there on February the day mother of three small children.gaining ground. Charlle Suet has forcing payment before the

round "My fe revolves

the prepared a scheme for pedestrian port cppears.

If the British Transport Com- live with parking areas. During the hours plays," she says.

while William of the heaviest traffic

warders mission give in to the NUR there would park pedestrians in or- every chance of another grave p.. Home has w written 14 derly formations behind borbed strike threat later from the other

two unions who will feel he be defeated by the departure plays of which only three have wire, only releasing them in

their money has been used of Henry Kendall, who is giving been real flops. His blg suc- 'alphabetics? order when the

buy off the NUR in police had reported that it clude The Chiltern Hundreds, seemed to be comparatively safe The author is taking his play The Reluctant Debutante and for a small body of them to Brighton for one week. I Now Barabbas. intend to bring it back to the He refuses the often-made West End-it, of course, we can suggestion that he writes only And a theatre for it"),

about the upper class und recalls Things to come that Now Barabens was set in a

But determined Mr Home will the characters not rest contented on reaching ereales them." an unexpected century, Nor will

up the title role for a few weeks to direct another play.

And he is taking over the part

of Aunt Edwma himself.

cesses, on stage and screen,

move about.

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that

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But whatever course is taken, the inescapable fact remains that sooner or later the whole ques- tion of government financing of the railways will have to be drastically re-thought.

It will be the third time that was about the battle of Flodden very many sensible people, fa2004 Meat for the cartoonists |

be has stood in" for the stars The Bad Samarilan told the

of his own plays. He has also story of a Dean.

played in The Chiltern Hundreds

and The Reluctant Debutante.

Why has Mr Home, Old Eton- lon son of the 13th Enel of Home. lought so tirelessly for his con- Ireversini sex-change play?

Clearly he has a genuine ad- miration for his own work. Also lie was upset by suggestions that his play was in bad taste.. "It is particularly maddening

I turned down

because

D

rison: The Thistle and The Rose motor industry is alarm- et by the possibly that

with

drink a choice betwech and driving cars, will choose One other thing sunoys the drink. But warrant there will talented Mr Home: the way soon be pills to ecizateract drink people conclude he must be in the bloodstream, beer which fox-hunting type as portrayed will give the breath the aroma In Aunt Edwing and other of a rozebower, and whisky works.

with a scent of honeysuckle.

He says: "I have been on a borso cnly once in my life, In

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