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Historians deride the legend of Merlyn and doubt that Arthur ever ruled in England. One medievalist who knew better was Terence Hanbury White, who wrote the massive (677 pages), moving Arthurian tetralogy, The Once and Future King, from which came Broadway's Camelot and Hollywood's The Sword in the Stone. To many critics, it is one of the few classics of 20th century English literature...
...Arthurian Cocktails. T. H. White, who died last week of a heart ailment at 57, was Merlyn. A blue-eyed, white-bearded six-footer who looked like an antic Elijah, he shared with the magician a hunger for knowledge and a delight in conveying it to others. A complex, lonely, compassionate man, he believed with Merlyn: "The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting...
...STORY OF YOUNG KING ARTHUR (by Clifton Fadiman, illustrated by Paul Liberovsky; Random House; $1.50). Like the actor who plays Hamlet, no author can wholly fail when telling the Arthurian saga. While no Malory or even a T. H. White (The Once and Future King) Author Fadiman is a cut above Lerner & Loewe (Camelot). His grave young hero seems to sense that he is on the threshold of a mythic destiny. Fadiman's Merlin is a wiser Polonius. His courts and tourna ments are a pageant of medieval glory as if they had been clipped from the film sequences...
Camelot. While failing to live up to its extravagant expectations and to the richness of the Arthurian legend, the Lerner-Loewe work has sumptuous sets, some fine songs, some stylishly medieval choreography, and an expert performance by Richard Burton...
Camelot. While failing to live up to its extravagant expectations and to the richness of the Arthurian legend, the Lerner-Loewe work has sumptuous sets, a few fine songs, some stylishly medieval choreography and an expert performance by Richard Burton...