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Gage took more bit out of the rebellion by miscasting the rest of the actors. Dave LeMire (Colonel Redfern) played a representative aristocrat. He used a pursed-lipped, hoity-toity voice as phoney as his old age lines. The result was that the contest between classes and between generations wasn't credible. Chris Hart (Cliff Lewis) is a dewy-eyed boy instead of a babysitting adult. He made Jimmy Porter sound vaguely professional...
...backed comfortably into pipe-puffing middle-age. Outwardly content, he is actually bored with his life and his pregnant wife, and yearns to recapture his vanished youth in an affair with Sassard, an Austrian princess. She, however, has two far more successful suitors. The first, an agreeable adolescent aristocrat (York), becomes her fiance. The other, a university tutor (Stanley Baker) who seems to have a postgraduate degree in seduction, becomes her lover...
Great Winds. Each page in Lord Russell's autobiography disputes what is on the other side. He combined a rigorous skeptical rationalism with a naturally religious temperament. He was a rich aristocrat in the days when a peer was a peer, but became an "international socialist" and pacifist-exhibiting the gift of naivete that he possesses in such abundance today. Earlier, having become a teetotaler to please his wife, he had taken up drinking again because "the King took the pledge during the First War. His motive was to facilitate the killing of Germans, and it therefore seemed...
...Aristocrat on French horn: The class of the brass, he is refined and erudite, is one of the highest-paid members of the orchestra and acts like it. Unlike the other brass players, he has never known the camaraderie of playing in dance bands, and tends to stand aloof. He is adept at organizing strikes and protest movements...
HAROLD NICOLSON: DIARIES AND LETTERS, 1930-1939, edited by Nigel Nicolson. One might as well try to put aside chocolates as this aristocrat's account of the fashions and foibles of prewar London...