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...seat Lyttelton, where the company will make its debut, is a traditional proscenium arch house with the subdued intimacy of a room one might associate with chamber music. No ticket holder can complain about his point of vantage. The raked, beige, tufted seats offer sight lines of geometric clarity. It is as if the air had been filtered for purer vision. The particular largesse of the Lyttelton is a side stage sealed off from the main stage by a soundproof door. A visiting company from the provinces or abroad-and Hall intends to invite them -can mount...
...white settlers in Kenya, Mboya's mention of guns and pangas brought unhappy memories of the Mau Mau terror. Last year, under the Lyttelton constitution, Africans in Kenya were allowed to vote for certain members of the 58-member "multiracial" Legislative Council, which, it was hoped, would bring unity to the European, African, Asian and Arab citizens of the colony. Mboya and seven other Africans were elected to the "Legco" but, protesting that Negroes deserved at least 15 more seats, they refused to have any part in the government...
Viscount Chandos (who used to be better known as Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton) wrote last week that although Britain, the Commonwealth and the U.S. must work together, there is a "need for us to play a leading and independent part. We cannot play this role as the 49th State. A spoonful-and it should not be more than a spoonful-of isolationism should also be permitted to us." The new leader of the Liberal Party, J. Joseph Grimond, wondered aloud whether Britain would not do better to reduce the Commonwealth to the "white Dominions"-Canada, Australia, New Zealand-and foresaw...
Postwar Career: When Churchill and the Conservatives regained power in 1951, became No. 2 man at Colonial Office under heavy-handed Oliver Lyttelton; in 1954 became Colonial Secretary himself...
Hollow Triumph. To the British it had seemed simple and tidy. Lyttelton silenced Laborite criticism and moved himself nearly to tears with an emotional speech about his own affection for the Kabaka. "It was the more painful to me because he was a member of my university, and of my regiment [the Grenadier Guards], and a friend of my son's at Cambridge!" The press applauded, the critics subsided chapfallen...