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Theatre critic BEVERLEY BAXTER reports on the new play: by TYRONE GUTHRIE. "Down stage an old nanny is knitting

something together which turns out to be the plot.”

Here is the best voice

on the London

T

LONDON, Oct. 20.

THE first thing to be said about the extraordinary first night at the St James's is that John Mills roveals himself as an netor of re- markable range and gifts.

For five years he has been playing scenes in studios to audiences of electrielana, make- up men and anxious script-writers, while speaking to a microphono,

Then on Wednesday night he takes on a role which is longer than Hamlet and far more complicated. Right at the beginning, in Getting like Tussaud's wax works when the lights have gone out he has to lie on a bed alternately speaking as a man and then as small boy. We don't know who anybody is, but we gather that both the man on the bed, as well as the author, are in a slate of de-

lirium.

Various ghostly women talk at him like a Greek chorus, and a real ladder stretches right up to the floata. We rightly astume that the ladder is symbolic and not just left there by the stage hands.

BERNARD SHAW AND

THE

KREMLIN

GUTHRIE NIGHT OUT

OWN stage an old nanny is

knitting

stage

RACHEL KEMPSON

The goo goo mother

Bertie

in turn and refused to be tycoon, in fact he went to America or some such far-off place and came back with London wife and baby.

that So we had three plays going

A

the

im-

actor that he indicated the boy without embarrassing us in the process.

Bertie The idea was this. resented his doctor father be cause the old chap wanted him

Instead also to be a doctor. Bertle became a great busi- something to ness man in order that his son Rether which turns out to be could continue the dynasty. the plot. In fact Tyrone Guth- 3 PLAYS AT ONCE rie the famous producer was having a night out with a play DUT the son resented by Tyrone Guthrie the author. But it certainly does no harm It was in this weird setting 10 usk Durselves, and each that we heard liges spoken by other, what it actually is that an actor with the best volce

on the Mr Shaw production we are opposed to.

Mills kunws well have stimulated and stage. Mr may enlivened this question, but in the throat is an aperture,

effect was very dramatić. fact people have been asking it, a strainer, and that the bridge off at once, and at times

For example, it was and annivering it, for some time of the nose is for

mensely alertaining when Mrs now-indeed ever since Soviet and not merely for spectacles.

In addition there is intelli- Berile and her women friends: Russia began to destroy our

the

boy's celebrating postwar hopes of international Fence and intensity in every were

docs.

stage first birthday and in his office, The co-operation and to reveal her thing he

and only Bertie's partners and chiefs of and to our own national free-

managing to time. ilme

brating his rise to dom.

I shall now attempt the im- director.

But why didn't possible and try to describe the

producer We have zorted out by now plot and the method of

Author Guthrie pro- Guthric tell the elements of modern

Com-auction. Bertie, the Big Busi- that repetition of effect is the munism, as practised at present nest Man, was the son of a very death of drama? Three- in the USSR, to which we are doctor. Bertie was married to quarters of an hour thould be- The chief of these are a nice girl, who presented him cut from the first and

of freedom

of with a son. the stilling thoughii, the subservience justice and the Jaw centralised

the State policy, institution of forced labour and the deliberate use of false pro- paganda at nome-and-abroad.

T the age of 94 Mr I can remove some of the in a comparison of Communist

Russia and

other countries are George Bernard Shaw wrappings,

The first and shinfest wrap- those of the working time re- has a new play (or

ping is the one that bas quired by a man to caro, let us of bread. In the stage in Fabianism" written all over it. guy, a kilogram playlet) on

Spring of last year London, at the Watergate We can throw that one away, the

this way for an Theatre. He has also proved The thought and writings of worked out

lense him to not lost his people like Sidney, and Beatrice unskilled engineering worker, in that he has

Webb, and youthful Shaw him- the USSR one hour; in Italy, 55 self, had a wide Influence in minutes; in France, 30 minutes;

taste for paradox, by con- tributing to The Times & lengthy letter telling US that the USSR can beat the rest of us hollow in the mutter of advertising itself. For 40 years, he says, the Kremlin has been flooding Europe with magnificent

By+++++**

FRANCIS WATSON

large in

Sweden

It

25 minutes;

in in

illustrated magazines in a Britain. They made variety-of-languages, extoll- numbers of people think afresh, Swizerland.__13_minutes;

Britti 10 ing the achievements of the and deeply, about the social and

minutes. That, il economic problems of Soviet state and picturing

highly

industrialised you want materialism, seems to with its long record of me to be the answer,

development. But

the happy life inside MA

borders.

our

resonance

self as a danger to world peace should reclaim him

the films from staff were simultaneously cele-

oppused.

INTENTION

of Just to make it harder, the to Laby grew up and also stred a

wns

a

third nets. The second act should rot be touched. It was

was superb. And why? Because symbolism |=GD. The male

wings strain

was chucked into the was

end there were straightforward' strong in that family.

INVISIBLE WINDOWS scenes, excellently written and excellently acted The fring director at the of the old munnging on the stage, ell same time, we had Ber- by the younger man found Mr tie's office where he

Mi and Mr Miles Malleson. at their best. There is not tycoon. Berile's original home

his finer plece of acting where The truth wrapped up in MVEN these we were

he was a boy, and at one Lowi

home which had In whole of Lendon, Shaw's bewildering paradoxes ime inclined to say were not visible windows through which

ON AND ON our business so long as

they ho

and hig wife were were confined to Russia. It is

they MARY always staring. Actually

KERRIDGE takes the apparent latention to extend were staring at us, but in a

step mother them by any means, Including play like "Top of the Ladder" sinrdom with her violence, which is forcing us to no one minds being a free if study of a secretory make up our minds and look it helps things along. to our defences in association with all other free nations.

to attribute all our advance in the last half

tc century

I confess that I myself haye not been struck by the volume Fablanism, or Communism, or is, but to Britain, working con- of such Communist advertising. Socialism, or any one party or I have

good many theory, is to misrepresent the Russian illustrated magazines; basie character

ECCT

system,

and

it is true, in the immense variety of reneling matter which Western

man is allowed encouraged to look at. And I have sometimes wondered what

and

of the British

PROGRESS

ditions, social welfare and a just distribution of the national in come, have been carried further than

anywhere else. He chooses to call this Commuul and to ask, in that case, why we are opposed to Communism. Well, political language easily jenda to confusion, especially when

wants to use

the most striking words.

it must be like to live in Russians system allows free play to

only the Russian Topluton and political organisa- everybody, Бес Magazines and papers.

tion under the protection of the law; and it is by that free play, of sociological forces, provided for in parlamentury de- mocracy, that progress has been achieved.

But I must say that in Britain and other countries, East and West, it has seemed to me far- years that American and local inore of the film stars have

than anybody's hop-window politicni propaganda.

PARADOX

J

the Shavian

BUT where

paradox I began with? It is here: Mr Shaw complains that what he calls the much greater Echievements of British Com- munism are

can say for Communism

heresy."

is

Musing in old uge

And some of us, trying to clear the air, have begun to call it Kremlinism.

in the

C.V.R. Thompson reports the U.S. scene him to ting down the curtain,

The

NEW YORK. Transatlantic strato-

towards compelling who gives her heart to a firm, and Rachel Obviously Mr Mills could not Kempson was delightful as the change from a business suit to 500-goo mother of Derlie's son. in schoolboy's costume every It was not her fault that Mr time he crossed the parallel Guthrie presented her with too between his office and his ear- much to say when she became 10- In fact, ly home. But he is such a good a grandmother.

wards the -end Mr Guthrie went from loquacity to Harru- ty. Nothing could persuade

is good that we have in Laurence Olivier a manager who is willing to give full rein- Said he: Eh is a waste of CRIME:

Clly

to the imaginative and the un- time, effort, energy, typewriters, warts next month, the Govern usual, but it is a plly when a printing

metal presses,

that Ledger and meat will charge

man of Guthrie's talent chilis paper and just because we are Venzey made nearly £3,000 a

the public which is eager afraid to depart from tradition." year while in gan. How he did

it: by showing his fellow-convicts give its support. But there the way to cut down their inconic John Mills London should go lo St. James's if only to oc- DIPLOMACY. Labour unions tax payments. 11s mistake-he are preparing to attack the cut down his own tax return to claim him. appointment of Walter Gifford, much,

of America's free former boss enterprise telephone system, us Ambassador to Britain. will claim he is anti-Labour.

They

In

Kansas

up

MARRIAGE

GE LINES

to- is

All political parties have con- tributed to that progress. You car argue us to which has done most. But one would have A cruiser made the last produced lasting results if the others had been stifled or pro-three hours of its flight hibited or liquidated. The one from Britain with two of its y State, which is the goal four engines out of uction. of Communism, quickly ends by

passengers Mae promoting nothing but itself.

There is another wrapping Wests on ready for any

DULCIE GRAY and Michack GENERAL EISENHOWER DU

Denison, like the Lunts. not advertised. that has to go, and that is the thing-knew of the risk of What he is saying is that Britain one

still isn't willing. He said the that suggests that only an ocean landing. But they of sucessfully ideas, new ideas, Shavian ideas, did not

cther day that he is "grateful" Gre very much married.

Therefore when we is an example

know about the

gather- Progress, the raising pilot's real worry; fog.

of

end "complimented" that Gov-

ed at the Ambassadors last applied Communism, and all we count.

HARVEST. Samuci ourselves is "that

Fraser, etor Tom Dewey has put a standard of Wing (which is

Rescue planes escorting him

all America's his name as the Republicans' night to see Jan de Hartog's who representa 2 dumdable not the whole of progress but

tvro-character play "The Four- by Atrin told pilot Robert Lindsay is strongly emphasised

of a mar- apple growers, will try to per- man for President, Gander, Newfoundland, suade the British Government Then he dictated a slatement Poster," the story deal, that depends a good on the Shaw)

airport was fog- to spend more than £1,000,000 that he thought he could best ringe in alx scenes, we rightly anticipated good team-work of his excitements

youth, after all, upen hard work. You the nearest

serve the cause of freedom by for 1,000,000 bushels of this the bound fairly distribute

based on 11 years of real-life he claims that he and Sidney cannot

present job of Said Lindsay: "I don't know

year's crop.

staying in his

rehearsal. Webb and other members of the national income if you have an

He is willing to let the apples Columbia University president. It started off well with the Politicians noled, however, Fabian Society set Marxism on insuficient national income to how we'll get down."

Then 15 minutes out from Its feet, made it practicable and distribute, and it is only work:

Gander the fog cleared. The

that one word was missing from couple's wedding-night, his statement--a firm, positive Mr Denison showed unexpect.. constitutional, so that it not only that produces income.

pinne made a perfect landing.

ed comic gifts. produced progressive results fr

The passengers took off their

It continued well with POLITICS: Is the policy of Mae Wests.

baby. Ther wife expreting Isolationism respectable again? PLEASE don't call them for come rencon de Martog, That question will be answered Yonks any more. Miss Juanita who is a playwright of dis- OPINION. Columnist H. Y. In a Senatorial sight now foin Adams, an Oklahoma historian, tinetlen, got bored with his Gardner thought up a reason on in Illinois, Trumantle Scott conditions, in which Britain

for more twins having been Lucas Is campaigning in defence asked for the word to be ban-characters. So did wc.

reason-it comes that to me, at has led the world (as Mr Shaw, born this year than ever before:

was excellent, the present Government's ned. Her

from an Indian word for "the both as the young bridegroom Arst glance, it seemed as pretty think, is arguing), does not

English,"

and the old man. Miss Gray a bundle of nonsense as I have consist in giving people slogans "With the world the way it is, foreign policy.

But his opponent, former Con-

was very good until the author seca for a long time.

to shout and banners to wave Infants are afraid to enter it

It alone."

FIRST doctor to be called up took a dislike to her, but she to worship.

Kressman Everet Dirksen, is bet-

area under must try to get more resonance However, ns sometimes hap- aut a leader

consists in making work more

ting that the Middle West, once in the New York

to get

1,500 in her voice. nonsense, and es- cons

is the army's plan pens with

EDUCATION: Onders went the citadel of isolationism, interesting, more worth while.

medical officers WI William with nonsense pecially

Roy Latham,. Board ready to retum to that policy.

The audience applauded gen- He has come out against the Sota, an American-born Japan-erously, but the tribute pounded by someone like George more personally profitable and out from

more effective in the fullest of Education president for New

As was gooled contains, It

an to the stars and not Bernard Shaw,

New Jersey, that Marshal plan, Truman's foreign ese. He Brunswick, con- human sense,

play. deeply embedded and

The only figures that have "ph" henceforth will be written polley, the Korean war, the call- enemy ation throughout World core of Blderably disguised, a

if ever seen that mean anything og "" in all elty schools. startling truth. Let me see

fritain but enabled the Russians

to save themselves from the

SLOGANS

ruin of their revolution. That,

read Mr THE improvement of work

at any rate, is how

Shaw's remarkable letter, no I must

confess

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