Word: londoners
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...headed by Giuseppe Sperduti, a professor of international law at the University of Naples. The British representative was Dr. James E. S. Fawcett, a former naval intelligence officer and onetime Foreign Office legal adviser who is now director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. The German member was Adolf Susterhenn, a former Christian Democratic delegate in the Bundestag...
...looked like a well-turned-out Lennon." John Lennon, that is. Sure, he'd consider playing Jesus, the Beatle was reported to have said, "but if I do it, I would want Yoko Ono to play Mary Magdalene." The Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, where they hope to stage Superstar, explained hastily that he had "nothing to do with the casting." By then, the producers were getting a little nervous too, and the offer was withdrawn. No matter. The frustrated Messiah has a project of another stripe coming up. Avant-Garde magazine will soon publish...
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (London). Conducted by Georg Solti, this Rosenkavalier neatly obliterates its recorded competition. Three lush-voiced ladies (Régine Crespin, Helen Donath and Yvonne Minton) keep the story poised convincingly between spring and autumn and the music teetering tenderly on the verge of tears. The big cast is stuffed with the names of well-loved Viennese singers, as well as the Met's sensational new tenor, Luciano Pavarotti...
There are permanent companies in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Berlin, Paris, Sydney, and-get this-Belgrade. And all with four-letter words and the nude scene solidly intact. The show is currently playing in Las Vegas (where the cast was threatned with arrest for, of all things, indecent exposure; but when the guffaws echoed from both coasts, the proposed arrest was canceled). Toronto, Boston, Helsinki and São Paulo will get their Hair next year, and rights have been sold in Israel, Italy and Belgium...
Friends and admirers of British Humorist Stephen Potter, who died in London last week at 69, will recognize Lifeman's rejoinder as the Canterbury Block, a devastating all-purpose ploy. "Yes, but not in the South," as Potter went on to explain in Some Notes on Lifemanship, is a phrase that "with slight adjustments, will do for any argument about any place, if not about any person. It is an impossible comment to answer." Lifemanship can take many other directions. One gifted practitioner, cited by Potter in the same volume, dedicated his book "TO PHYLLIS, in the hope that...