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...this vigorous atmosphere came an array of exceptional people-Classicist Gilbert Murray, Singer Nellie Melba, Novelist Henry Handel Richardson, Actress Judith Anderson, Dancer Robert Help-mann, Composer Arthur Benjamin and Actor Cyril Ritchard. But it was symptomatic that most Australian artists and intellectuals found their careers abroad (and it is symptomatic of a changed Australia that this is no longer so true...
...topnotch Saudek sample came along last week on NBC. Four for Tonight was an unusually witty review in which Tony Randall did a string of sight gags based on Mad magazine, Bea Lillie fanned her way through a couple of her more durable numbers, and Cyril Ritchard went Around the World on 80 Pounds, at one point carrying his valet in his valise. Best of all was Songstress-Comedienne Tammy Grimes, summing up the history of American women in popular songs; her smoky voice got everything but the filter feedback out of that 18th century smash, Tobacco...
Actually, C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkin son had discovered the most intriguing fact about the apple since Newton - how many bureaucrats it takes to polish...
...Colonial Secretary, was made a Companion of Honor, and Hugh Dalton, former Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer, was given a life peerage. Of special interest to the U.S.: Sir Roger Makins, from 1953 to 1956 Ambassador in Washington (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath), and Major Cyril Berkeley Ormerod, 62, sometime professional officer, since 1945 the amiable and able director of public relations in Manhattan's British Information Services. Henceforth, Major Bill Ormerod will be Sir Berkeley...
...melancholy. Another plus: Designer Rolf Gérard's brilliant costumes and sets, particularly a Viennese throne room almost handsome enough to bring back the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Heavily on the minus side are a preposterous libretto, not aided by Translator Maurice Valency's English lyrics, and Cyril Ritchard's uncertain direction...