Word: criers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ship may be on course, but the passengers are feeling surly. After word of the new budget was passed last week -by press and telly and town crier-voters (see THE WORLD) went strongly Tory in local elections...
...most part the production's lifelessness is all-pervading. Several actors have been more appropriately cast than the rest and shine by comparison--Leland Moss as Fluther, Kenny McBain as the Covey, Beatrice Paipert as Bessie Burgess, even Jennifer Crier as Nora. But there are no exciting performances of any size simply because the parts, good and bad, are so deeply rooted in the whole, which...
Town Cries. The admen did not have the occasion entirely to themselves. Every English town that could claim the remotest connection with either Harold or William beckoned tourists with such quaint attractions as Conquest puppet shows, town-crier contests and dancing on English Channel piers...
...some Songs from Greece (RCA Victor), with folk lyrics but melodies mostly by Manos (Never on Sunday) Hadjidakis. Greek is a poetic language of love for Belafonte's mellifluous voice (In the Small Boat, Walking on the Moon). Mouskouri adds some dreamlike songs about freedom (The Town Crier, The Baby Snake...
Next time you walk by the CRIMSON look above the doorway to the small balcony. There every day in years past a plumed crier appeared daily to tell the world the news. Now, gnarled in body and knotty of mind, he emerges once yearly, on New Year's morn, to gurgle weird incantations about the coming twelve-month in Serbo-Croation. Below are his predictions, translated from the original...