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...Idealist. Rarely is Casals personally revealing. He does offer praise for Martita, his youthful present wife, married in 1957. "She is the marvel of my world, and each day I find some new wonder in her." It is only in the second half of Joys and Sorrows that the reader begins to glimpse Casals the idealist, who used his artistic prestige to protest political injustices. Early in life he rejected socialism: "Full of illusions about changing society and man," he decided. "How is man to be changed when he is full of selfishness and cynicism, when aggression is part...
...Died. Martita Hunt, 69, one of the great ladies of the English stage and screen, who enthralled American audiences as the sinister Miss Havisham in the 1947 film version of Great Expectations, and in 1948 as the wondrously wacky ragbag old crone in Broadway's The Madwoman of Chaillot; in London...
...just say that it is a privilege that has been given to me." During the festival a doctor friend checked the cellist, pronounced him sound but advised him to take it easy. Small chance. Casals, who today lives in Puerto Rico with his attractive 29-year-old wife Martita, receives as many as 250 visitors a day, spends the rest of his time rehearsing and answering the hundreds of letters from well-wishers. And on the evenings when he is not performing, he sits listening in an armchair in the vestry, caressing his cello, his blue eyes gazing into space...
...abhors half measures. He seeks to establish mood by plunging nearly every London setting into an all but impenetrable gloom. He recklessly tips off the viewer that a key character is deranged thus siphoning off surprise from a climactic mad scene for which no Oscars will be won. Meanwhile, Martita Hunt as a dotty old schoolmistress, and Noel Coward, as a dotty old literary type strive to stop the show with their patented idiosyncrasies. To keep an eye on everyone, there is the man from Scotland Yard-dryly played by Sir Laurence Mivier, who seems bemused to find his king...
Queen Mother Martita Hunt is moved to say: "You have an obsession about him which is unhealthy and unnatural...