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A picture story of John Osborne's_play_as_presented by the Garrison Players

Look

Back

In

Anger

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As seen by Frank Fischbeck

And told by Andrew Body

Picture ond

'Girl here wants to know whether her bog-frinud will lose all respect for her if she gives hi what he asks for..... Stupid bitch,

Rending the papers is a Sunday morning ritual with Jimmy Porler, as it is with many others. But with a difference. The papers give Jimmy chance to air hise explosive opinions on religion, wex and politics. He is ' especially bitter about the apathy of the average man... the yob in the front row' and of the woman he married."

Picture two

'How i lung for a little cuthusiasm. Just ordinary kuman enthusiasm,- that's all. I want to kear a warm thrilling cuire cry out Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!

To Jimmy feeling is living. Enthusiasm and the ex- pression of that enthusiasm ls proof of vitality: apathy and indifference a sign of atrophy and death. To Alison, his wife, exhuberance of spirit is bad form: in her world self-restraint as a sign of breeding is taken for grunted. She is thus a natural target for her husband's jiben. Something of a sadist, he tries to provoke her, gead her into a display of emotion. He taunts her with her family, her background, her friends: with the history of their marriage. Anything, anything to cruck her well-bred calm. Finally, quite unwittingly he hits on the one thing that shatters her....

June Wright

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Picture three

If only something word happen to you, and wake you out of your beauty sleep! If you could have a child and it would die. Let it gruis; let a recognisable human face emerge from that little máss öf índia-rubber and wrinkles, If mily I could watch you face that, I wonder if you might even become a recognizable human being yourself. But I'

doubt it,

But life in the Porter household is hot unrelieved t- savagery. Jimmy is capotile of tenderness and affection. If he makes He hell for all around him it is because he is suffering. The emotional scars of the past are long in healing, and his skin la too thin for the world of the present. He and Alison can escape sometimes into world makebelieve....

Picture pix

Listen darling-you've got to tell him. Either he learns to behave like anyone else, and looks after you or you must get out of this madhouse...this menagerie. He doesn't seem to know what love or anything clae means.

Jimmy is quick to sense Helena's antagonissa and to lash back. He does so characteristically, brutally...

From the Filos

25

years AGO

October 1936

Berlin. HANCELLOR Adolf Hitler hus denounced the clause of the Treaty of Versailles regarding the in- ternationalisation of rivers.. The decision was nicated to the Government concerned tudny.

commu-

By his action Herr Hitler has now unilaterally declar- ed that Germany is free of every shackle imposed at Versailles, the last of which WAB the

restriction of navigation o21 certain of Germany's rivers.

The denunciation will pre- sumably affect Czecho- Slovakian shipping on the Elbe to Hamburg and the North Sea, alao Dutch barges and other interna- tional traffic up the Rhine. Such shipping will hence- forth be subjected to any regulations Germany may impose.

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Perhaps the biggest crowd that ever turned up to watch a tennis match in Hongkong were present to acc Willium T. Tilden and Ellsworth Vince in action

Un the specially-pre- pared court at the Hongkong 1C.C. afternoon, end with a splendid exhibition.

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Considering that both were strange to local conditions and that

the

sun was shining on

the court at an awkward angle

in

the early stages of the match, the famous profes- sionals put up a remarkably good show.

Among those present wero His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott and Caldecott; Mr Ng Ste-

Vice-President of

Lawn Tennis Anso- Mr H. R. B. Hancock,

the

ciation; President of the Hongkong Cricket Club; Mr C. J. Fachi, Hom. Secretary; and Mr D. S. Green, lion. Treasurer, of the Lawn Tennis Association.

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London.

R Gilbert Keith Chea-

MR terion, author and

journalist, of Top Meadow, Beaconsfield, Bucks, who died on June 14 lust, aged, sixty-two years of age, left property to the value of £28,389 11 11d with net personally £23,300 118 94 (duty paid £2,672).

The will and codicil are proved by Mrs Chesterton, the widow. Among his bequests was £2,000 to his secretary, Dorothy Edith Collins. Apart from a few other

specific bequeats be left everything to his wife absolutely.

Picture four

You're very krautiful. A beautiful great-vyrd squirrel. Hoarding, wd-munching squirrel, With highly polished gleaming for, and an extrich feather of a tal

And then there is Cliff, Jimmy's friend who lives across the hall and shares their life. A southlag, natural counterpoint to Jimmy, he falls naturally into the latter's moods. They have in net, a hurlesque of the oldtime music hall comedian and his stooge... Mirth Mellerdy and Madagss,, Bringing Quips and Strips for You"

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Picture five

Now there's a certain lady, and you all know who I mean, She may have been Rondean, but to me she's still a queen,

Into this somewhat odd menage comes Helena, Alison's friend. Her conventional morality is horrified by Jimmy's savage irony and she urges Alison to escape...

The cast

Jimmy Porter ..: Richard Marquand

Alison Porter

Cliff Edwards... Robert Hanna Helena Charles .. Thelma Stuart

Colonel Redfern.. David Jordan

*Look Back in Anger" is to be presented by The Gurrison Players from Wednesday 18th-Saturday 21st October,

1961, at

King George's Hall, The Missions to Sen- men, at 8.30 pm.

The producer is Colvyn Haye.

Picture paven

'I hope you

won't make the mistake of thinking for one moment that I'm a gentle san...I've no public school scruples about hitting girls. If you stap my face-- by God, I'll lay you out!

But Helena wine. She persundes Allkon to leave. Colonel Redfern, Alison's (ather, arrives to take her away. Strange- ly, the Colonel is one of the few people Jimmy has affection for. Although he lates Allson's family for what they represent clann-privilege, he has grudging respect for the Colonel's world, although it is a vanished era.

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It is quite impossible to catch more than the merest Impression of the tenderness and bitter power of Osborne's play in a few words and pictures. One inust see the action and hear the words. Even reading the play will not do....the words are only faint echoes of the vital Besh and blood of Jimmy Fortor and his world.

Picture aight

Perhaps Jimmy is right. Perhaps I am- what did he call mot An old plant loft over from the Edwardian Wilderness ....'

This is not the inconclusive end to the atory. Alison runs away, but she is yet to learn to feel. With suffering she finds the wisdom Jimmy has been preaching; and in tragedy she teaches him humility.

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