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...DRAMAS. Luther arrives from Britain, with Albert Finney continuing as Martin Luther in John Osborne's verse play, directed by Tony Richardson (Sept. 25). Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal, is about a count who democratically seduces a young nursemaid only to encounter the rage of both his wife and mistress for betraying his class (Sept. 23). British Playwright Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy stars Charles Boyer as a Wall Street operator who creeps off to Greenwich Village to live in the pad of his apostate son during the Depression (Nov. 12). Arnold Wesker's Chips...
Delicate Equilibrium. Albert Finney became an international star when Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was circulated around the world. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, scheduled for release in the U.S. this autumn, is an equally good film, and Courtenay's performance has all the detailed excellence of Finney's. He plays Colin Smith 993, an inmate at Her Majesty's Borstal prison at Ruxton Towers. The place is a stately old home landscaped with barbed wire (Sillitoe's way of saying "this sceptered isle"). Smith, son of a factory worker, is the natural enemy...
...Bitten Finney. Bright, miserably shy and introverted, Courtenay himself is the living opposite of the boy he plays on film. His father spent his working lifetime painting trawlers. "The only way he could have earned less than he did was not to have worked at all," says Tom. But in stead of filling him with resentment, Courtenay's humble beginnings inspired him. Under Britain's weed-killing series of national examinations, only one in thousands from a background like Courtenay's ever receives more than an elementary education. Courtenay...
...Courtenay's merit as a star was not secured until he replaced Albert Finney last year in the West End's long-running Billy Liar. Critics who had slobbered all over Finney for his dazzling performance in the role watched Courtenay do it, then turned and bit Finney. Finney's great performance, they decided, had been "out side the play" compared with Courtenay's wellsprings of insight...
...same year, Roy Harris joined la boulangerie. From Harvard, in a later generation, came Irving Fine, Harold Shapero, and Arthur Berger. Elliott Carter, Marc Blitzstein, Bernard Rogers, Roger Goeb, David Diamond, Ross Lee Finney, Howard Swanson, Easley Blackwood--all composed under her tutelage. Among the Europeans she taught were Igor Markevitch, Jean Francaix, Antoni Szalowski, and Darius Milhaud...