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When Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten's dour saga of a doomed fisherman, was first produced at the Metropolitan Opera in 1948, one patron was so outraged that he spat through the box-office window. Badly sung, unimaginatively staged, poorly conducted, the opera sank with barely a ripple...
Uncle (Nigel Green) has opportunity as well as motive. On the isolated Caribbean islet where he and Barnaby (Pat Cardi) are spending a vacation, there are only four other people: a policeman, a fisherman, a divorcee and a 13-year-old girl named Chrissie (Mary Badham). Barnaby tries desperately to make them all understand that dear old Uncle really means to do him in, but only the little girl believes him. "Tell you what," she burbles brightly. "Let's kill Uncle first...
Nevertheless, the stories on balance are often captivating, and two of them alone make the book well worth reading. The best is the title story, which tells of the deep friendship between a testy old Spanish fisherman and an Albanian sailor, neither of whom ever learns to speak the other's language. In Life Is an Operetta, Ustinov uses his expertise to write a deceptively simple account of a Hungarian singer who will linger in memory as the quintessential Hungarian female on the make...
Britain's "wanted men" have a knack for avoiding police. James White, a member of the 1963 Great Train Robbery gang, posed as a fisherman in Kent for 21-years before he was caught. Baby Strangler John Edward Allen lived for two years within 200 yards of a police station, was spotted only when his curiosity led him to the station bulletin board to look for his own wanted notice. Harry Roberts may not be so lucky. "Even if Roberts remained free for two years," noted the Observer, "every policeman in Britain would still go to sleep remembering...
...been for the past 20 years, has been lambasting Pell for weeks, touring factories and stores with a firm handshake, steady blue eyes and a brisk "I'm Colonel Briggs running for the U.S. Senate and I hope you will help me in November." A Barrington fisherman summarized the surprise of many who are approached by the colonel: "I heard about this colonel, but I didn't know she was no dame...