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Last week, for The Cocktail Party, his new blank-verse comedy, Playwright Eliot appeared in a new role: the harried craftsman who jots notes in the balcony while the actor runs through the dress rehearsal. For four weeks in Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theater, Eliot had watched rehearsals, chatted with the actors over gin an water, and penciled his unpublished script with cuts and corrections...
...Edinburgh to conduct at the annual music festival, peppery old (70) Sir Thomas Beecham struck a sonorous chord: "It is an honor and a privilege for the festival for me to come." But when someone mentioned the Festival of Britain, planned for 1951 as a mammoth cultural fair, he sounded a brassy note: "A monumental piece of imbecility and iniquity...We are going to celebrate 50 years of the most abominable misgovernment by having an exhibition and festival at the expense of U.S. money...We are broke-underline that three times. The country has gone potty. We have no moral...
Since war's end, Salzburg has had to watch the rise of another fine summer festival at Edinburgh. Said one Salzburg conductor last week: let Edinburgh go on being "an international, large-scale musical review"; Salzburg had its own "vernacular"-which was another way of saying that Salzburg would stick to the old tasks, and accomplish them...
Celebrating their new status as householders (they just moved into their very own Clarence House), Britain's matronly Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh went to a fancy dress party last week costumed as a butler and chambermaid. Their host, Ambassador Douglas, was rigged out as a farmer. His wife hid her gentle features behind a horse's mask to appear as The Old Grey Mare. Their daughter, honey-haired Sharman, came as A Portrait of a Lady; she carried around a huge picture frame, finally abandoned it in a corner...
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, who have been living with their in-laws at Buckingham Palace since their marriage, finally moved into a home of their own: 124-year-old Clarence House; still being given $200,000 worth of decorations and repairs for wartime bomb damage...