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Disillusioned Fabian. Extremists like Muggeridge are usually in revolt against a conservative, straitlaced childhood. But Muggeridge rebelled against a conventional left-wing upbringing. His father was a Fabian Socialist; his mother was a proper working-class girl. He married Kitty Dobbs, niece of Fabian Founder Beatrice Webb. When he journeyed to India to teach English, he urged his students to rebel against British rule...
...Married. Fabian Forte. 23. early rock 'n' roller currently doing the grade-B Hollywood bit (Dr. Goldfcot and the Love Bombs); and Kathleen Regan, 25, a model; in Berlin...
...important scenes in Olivia's garden, not only is there a potted palm at the far edge of the stage, but the wall of her house wings out to become a trellis covered with oranges and greenery, punctuated by three oval holes through which is Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian can stick their heads to spy and comment on Malvolio's famous Letter Scene. All the shifts work smoothly and allow the play to flow unimpeded...
...Peardon makes a beautiful Olivia, though she is not at ease with her lines; and the veils she and her retinue wear when Viola-Cesario first visits her ought to be far less transparent. Elizabeth Parrish needs to invest the part of Olivia's maid Maria with more vivacity. Fabian, her male counterpart, fails in the hands of Julian Miller to leave much of any impression...
...such veteran actors as Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White and Leo Genn convey the resigned air of specialists summoned too late to be really useful. Mod sex appeal is dragged in by Shirley Eaton, fisticuffs by Hugh O'Brian. And, unlikely as it seems, there is Teen Idol Fabian, quaffing a lethal dose of poison immediately after singing a song. Fabian is the first of Indians' victims, and the luckiest. For him, the end comes quickly...