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Here are Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson, two players of skill and intelligence, lending dignity and a measure of passion to a sort of pocket pageant that could bring out the worst in any actor. Rattigan's script-an adaptation of his play A Bequest to the Nation-is a damp recounting of the infamous romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, a liaison that scandalized Georgian London and threatened, for a time, Britain's naval might...
...Love. Ken Russell's lush adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel comes closer to the emotional spirit of the subject period than do any of his subsequent films, and his arty style is appropriate to Lawrentian descriptions of passion. Alan Bates tells how one eats a fig a provocative Glenda Jackson dances before a herd of cattle--these scenes are handled very well, but the social attitudes of the book are lost. Read it first...
...Glenda J. Wilson, associate dean for administration at the Ed School, said yesterday that dropping the MAT program foreshadows an emphasis on in-service teacher training over student training as teachers...
...vary their technique according to the prevailing mood. At Fliot for example they began to exaggerate the melodrama when they found it provoked laughter. "I think the play is funnier than Currier House thought it was, but not as funny as they thought it was at South House," said Glenda. The cast, on the other hand, enjoyed the South House performance tremendously. "When everybody's laughing, people don't feel so self-conscious about laughing at individual lines," said Kit. "It's not the kind of play you would laugh at if you just read it to yourself...
...actors. That's when you find out that Bruce, who mocks Rees throughout the play for being a "madras commuter" rat from Greenwich, actually comes from Fairfield County himself. You may also find out what the actors thought of you as an audience, and where they disagreed with Glenda about how to say the lines, and how they view this Strolling Players business...