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...Prioress's Tale" the twin roles are set. In Marlow's Jew of Malta and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice the composite portraits are given their final expression and the final punisments are meted out. "In Chaucer he was torn by wild horses and hanged also. In Gower a lion tears him to death. Marlowe has him burned in a cauldron. Shylock, the fox at bay, loses both daughter and ducats, as well as his religion...
...ventures. On his form sheet for 1961: Group IV. The only show still to open this season in TI's gilt-edged category, Carnival, a musical based on the film Lili, boasts a blue-chip billing of Producer David Merrick (twelve moneymakers in his last 16 attempts), Director Gower Champion (one for one), Composer-Lyricist Bob Merrill (two for two). One of the book writers, Michael Stewart, proved himself in Bye Bye Birdie; the other, Helen Deutsch, is untested, as is Star Anna Maria Alberghetti...
...Broadway Bye Bye Birdie. Director Gower Champion's fresh and frantic musical about an Elvis-type crooner swings through the evening like a pendulum gone wild...
...basement rooms in Gower Street are headquarters for the Committee of African Organizations. Working at tiny desks, surrounded by trestle tables loaded with duplicating machine, proofs and pamphlets, each African concentrates on his job regardless of the surrounding conversation, loud argument and clatter of machines. When the rooms overflow, the conversations move outside to the cellar steps or across the road to a cheap cafe. At headquarters one morning last week were representatives from the Southern Rhodesian Congress Committee Abroad, the Revolutionary Front for National Independence of Portuguese Colonies, the Tanganyika Students Association, the National Association of Socialist Students...
Most London Africans, who will one day be members of the ruling class in their native lands, share either the bone-deep bitterness of Adumah or the puzzled frustration of the girl from Nigeria. At the Shah Restaurant, off Gower Street, a haunt of African intellectuals, Tanganyika's Martin Kazuka explained: "You can put through an Act of Parliament, if you like, or set to work educating your children-both will take a long time. But the real thing that will solve these problems of prejudice is the independence and progress of our African countries. Only by our achievements...