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...attempts to present the father of Protestantism as a kind of Jimmy Porter of the Reformation. Starring Actor Albert (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) Finney, the play opened this week in Nottingham, a British tryout town, will spend the summer in "off-Broadway" London and on tour, including the Edinburgh Festival and Paris' Théâtre des Nations (see below). Like most plays on the road, Luther may change before London's critics first see it next month, but as it reached the Nottingham boards and was prepared for print by Faber & Faber, it seemed sharply disappointing...
...emphasis to the drama. From the indoor stages of Scandinavia to the open-air théâtres antiques of Roman Provence, there is a heady international mosaic. Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, for example, will be done in Lallan Scots accents at Edinburgh (hoot, monsieur...
...Edinburgh (Aug. 20-Sept. 9). Dull and in atrophy for several years, Scotland's International Festival of the arts promises a return to pre-eminence this year under a new artistic director, Lord Harewood, 38, music-critic cousin of Queen Elizabeth. With John Osborne's Luther (see above), he will present the Bristol Old Vic's version of Lawrence Durrell's Sappho and Wolf (Expresso Bongo) Mankowitz' adaptation of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's Frank V, described as the "musical history of a private bank." Then there is also the famed Edinburgh "Fringe"-small, independent productions...
...want to be a missionary, but a year of teaching at missionary-run Forman College in Lahore. India (now Pakistan), killed his enthusiasm for a missionary career. Returning home in 1929, Blake married Valina Gillespie and spent the first year of his seminary training studying theology at New College, Edinburgh, then went back to Princeton Seminary until his ordination...
...Russian oil on world markets ("aimed at creating dissension and undermining the economies of free nations") to the lightning-quick onslaught of national revolutions (he got out of Iraq and Lebanon just before fighting broke out in each place). He must be ready to chat with the Duke of Edinburgh about how to bring up children, which he did recently at the dedication of a British plant, or sacrifice his digestion to insistent entertainers, as he did on a 50,000-mile, three-week trip to Africa that included no luncheons, dinners and cocktail parties. Rathbone has also elevated...