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...fighting among themselves. The Algerian National Movement, directed by bearded Messali Hadj from his enforced exile on an island off the Brittany coast, has been making a major effort to recapture the influence it lost to the more militant National Liberation Front, whose forces are commanded by Mohammed ben Bella and supported from Cairo by Egypt's ambitious Premier Nasser. Twice French troops have come across troops of Arabs with their throats slit, apparently killed by rival fellaghas. Last week Liberation agents obligingly tipped off French police to a dynamite plot planned by Messali Hadj adherents in Orleansville...
...first big speech captured a youthful intensity that was an optical as well as an acting triumph. Henry Daniell gave one of his best performances, as a father tyrannical enough to cow a platoon of rebellious children, and in one searing moment-when he harshly kissed his fluttery niece, Bella-suggested the Freudian horrors that were revealed in the last act. Anthony Quayle made a Byronesque lover as Robert Browning, but his part was badly crippled by the playwright's trick of never permitting a confrontation scene between the ardent poet and the implacable father...
...abroad, and named names: "The country which is the center of this spider's web is Egypt." A rebel lieutenant captured in Algeria had admitted to interrogators that all war operations in Algeria are directed by a committee of Algerian nationalists in Cairo headed by one Mohammed ben Bella. Soustelle flourished a copy of orders drawn up in Cairo by Ben Bella directing the assassination of any Algerian who tried to negotiate with the French. The document was headed: "Done with the Approval of Big Brother." Who was Big Brother? "All fellagha to whom we have put this question...
Mohammed ben Bella, military chief for Algeria, is a big, good-looking ex-sergeant of the French army. The French believe he transmits his orders by radio to fighters in the Aures and Kabylie Mountains. Political chief for Algeria is 43-year-old Mohammed Khidir, 43, onetime French Deputy who got disgusted in 1946 and went underground, emerging only long enough to help Ben Bella rob the Oran post office of 3,000,000 francs. In both Morocco and Tunisia, Cairo's conspirators have been set back by the victory of the moderates, whom they seem to resent...
Brass Bite. Prawy began by putting Sam and Bella Spewack's slangy, sprightly spoof of Shakespeare and show business into sprightly, slangy German. Then, to give the Cole Porter score bite, he put an edge on the staid Volksoper orchestra in the form of a dozen Viennese axmen, most of whom cut up in brass. To keep the musicians jumping, he imported Conductor Julius Rudel of Manhattan's City Opera Co. He also imported his key principals from the U.S.: handsome Brenda Lewis of the Metropolitan Opera (Kate), and two relative unknowns, both Negroes, Olive Moorefield (Bianca...