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...about classical music and a quality called "inner beauty" that is symbolized for him in a reproduction of Botticelli's Venus over his bed. With fear and trembling, plus a savvy pal's coaching, he has invited to his scrubby flat what he thinks is a feminine moonlight sonata. Enter the girl (Geraldine McEwan), a sniffly, scratchy, giggly chick with the inner beauty of a beer can. She is not smitten with Benjamin Britten. The pal gets Tchaik's girl without half trying. Brian Bedford gives love's labor lost a touchingly bewildered pathos, but despite...
...visions of South Pacific backgrounds. Small wonder. Called The Beach of Falesá, the script was written by Dylan Thomas. In its stagy directions, "a stream foams out of the descending galleries and gardens of the tremendous, verdurous, impenetrable high interior of the island," and a "lantern and the moonlight make the bush all turning shadows that weave to meet and then spin off, that hover overhead and fly away, huge, birdlike, into deeper inextricable dark...
...wild geese shiver in the moonlight...
Charming but Wary. That very same weekend Christine had met Jack Profumo for the first time. It was at Cliveden, and Christine, who was visiting Ward at his cottage on the grounds, was stealing a nude moonlight swim in Astor's pool. Suddenly Bill Astor appeared with some guests, including Profumo. Frantically clutching a towel around her dripping self, Christine was introduced to both Jack and his wife, Valerie Hobson. "She was very charming," said Christine, "but seemed wary of me." Next day, Christine brought Ivanov out to Cliveden, and the Russian and Profumo held a swimming race, which...
...Moonlight Cruise for Class...