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When Communist Spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean escaped to Moscow in 1951 just before British intelligence moved in on them, the big question was who had tipped them off that they had been discovered. The finger of suspicion pointed at Harold A.R. Philby, an officer of Britain's M.I. 6 itself, but Philby was defended in Parliament by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan and managed to survive two investigations-before himself fleeing to Moscow from Beirut in 1963. Still,"the public never learned just how big a spy "Kim" Philby really was. Last week two London newspapers-the Observer...
When Alistair MacLean temporarily retired from writing three years ago, he settled down to running a couple of restaurant-bars in the south of England. That is probably just what the heroes of MacLean's The Guns of Navarone and H.M.S. Ulysses would have done. They were tightlipped, quietly efficient men who were repelled by heroics, and obviously wanted nothing more than peace and quiet after their hazardous call to duty ended. In this book, however, MacLean has smashed the mold. Secret Agent Philip Calvert, his new hero, must have got his basic training by watching James Bond movies...
WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL by Alistair MacLean. 288 pages. Doubleday...
...Free Country, disguised as a thriller, is a fable that might have been concocted by an unusually simple-minded fellow traveler. The villain of the piece is the British security system, which is apparently feeble enough to let a Burgess and Maclean, a Philby or Vassall, go undetected for years, but is eager to winkle out a man of the people of leftist leanings who just happens to handle sensitive hardware. He is a noble, rugged, beer-drinking type who had fought against Hitler and Franco, and his consort is a very nice schoolteacher married to someone else. The jilted...
...directing. Each role is clearly outlined against the character of Lear. Within this fairly rigid framework some of the supporting players were outstanding. David Grimm's Fool didn't whine, mince his steps or sing in falsetto; in short he was masculine, a rarity in the role. Peter MacLean as Kent and Nicholas Kepros as Edgar had to sustain an air of good sense and authority through the play's anarchistic denouement. They did. The scenes during the storm when the disgusted Kent watches Lear, Tom and the Fool dancing madly across the Spingold's tilted stage were striking...