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...summer, however, is William Hutt, 44, who is probably the best of Canada's actors. A deeply trained Shakespearean, he novelly plays Richard with strength at the start, gradually shading him into weakness. He is also candid about the shortcomings of earlier actors in the role. Alec Guinness, he says, "was impressive without being definitive." Michael Redgrave "played it like Barbara Stanwyck with a mustache." Gielgud? "I guess he thought Richard was a neurasthenic who could cry at the drop of a crown." As for the play itself, in which Richard's queen is a young child, Hutt...
DYLAN is another acting triumph for Alec Guinness, as he embodies the poetic fire, the playful wit, the alcoholic antics and the fierce urge to self-destruction that constituted the life and legend of Dylan Thomas...
Auberon Waugh wrote his first novel, he explained, because it was what was expected of him in a literary family: Father Evelyn wrote Decline and Fall at 25, and Uncle Alec wrote The Loom of Youth at 19. Having produced The Foxglove Saga at 21 ("My boy," his father had told him, "it is time you wrote your first book"), Auberon announced his retirement from literature. It is a shame he changed his mind. Foxglove Saga was modeled rather too closely after Decline and Fall-but at least it was funny. Path of Dalliance is modeled on the same book...
...were insistent that Britain use force, if necessary, to ensure that Southern Rhodesia's white-supremacist government grants full constitutional equality to the African population before achieving its independence. But militant white Southern Rhodesians have many sympathizers in England. And in an election year, the government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home is deeply reluctant to make any move that might encourage the self-governing "colony" to seize independence this year as it has threatened to do. Nonetheless, the African statesmen who were to wind up the speeches this week left no doubt that, in their eyes, Britain...
...there in exchange for three months' vacation. The island's telephones are cut off from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. And those in the know enjoy the highly civilized isolation (at about $9 a day, everything included, during July and August). Vulcano's visitors have included Alec Guinness, Adlai Stevenson-and Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, whose stay was unnoted by a single journalist or photographer...