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Beyond the Fringe. No musical, but the funniest revue in years, this lunatic entertainment offers four young English antiEstablishmentarians aiming blowgun darts of parody with poisonously amusing accuracy at Shakespeare, Harold Macmillan, and positive-thinking clergymen...
...Harold Macmillan may be in demand for years to come-at record stores. On the strength of a long-play disk that was billed irresistibly as Harold Macmillan Sings, the Prime Minister last week seemed likely to become one of Britain's top pop stars...
...Macmillan did not dare attempt the tune, merely declaimed the words sonorously. But the astute owners of a London satirical sheet called Private Eye snipped the passage from a tape recording of Macmillan's speech and re-recorded it, with backing from a twangy rock-'n'-roll guitar and a swinging chorus. Though it was intended only as part of an esoteric mailorder LP, Londoners last week found the record so hilarious that they were swamping record shops with requests...
...also the rage on television. The once staid BBC, which has reacted to competition from commercial TV with racy vigor, brought nationwide complaints with a satirical TV revue called That Was the Week That Was. One of the most outrageous TWTWTW skits featured a doctored newsreel of Macmillan, making it appear as if he were saying exactly the opposite of everything he really said. Another had Macmillan telephoning the White House. Says he: "Hello, Jack, this is Harold . . . Harold Macmillan . . . Macmillan...
...longtime star of Commons debates, and Foreign Secretary Lord Home, who was a lackluster Tory M.P. but has made a deep impact on the party in the past two years. In Tory inner circles, both are regarded as among the half-dozen potential candidates to succeed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...