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...could mistake the murderers, young Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, for Bonnie and Clyde; as rendered by Author Williams, they are closer to Jekyll and Hyde, complete with Victorian-melodrama makeup. Ian, 25, is the main figure, but wind him as he will, Williams cannot bring his manic mannequin to life...
After these two successes of the parts is synonymous with the success of the actors. Myra Durkin is Patience, the maid who can't bother being effete because she has to milk cows. Her voice, her rich, perfectly controled voice is meant for more than small stages in close auditoriums. Her flat-footed progression across the boards is comedy. If, and forgive me for this fussy stipulation, only if Miss Durkin is off-stage what she is on, I should like to marry her. I might not have included this declaration in these columns but for a standing belief...
Macabre Medley. On trial at Chester last April were Ian Brady, 28, a misanthropic store clerk whose only previous offenses had been housebreaking and burying cats alive, and Brady's blonde mistress, Esther Myra Hindley, 23, a wheyfaced, bouffant stenotypist. They were charged with slowly killing a ten-year-old girl and two boys, twelve and 17, by suffocation and ax blows, among other means. Two of the victims were buried naked in the bleak Manchester moors, where Myra posed smiling over the graves for Brady's camera; the third corpse was found by police in Brady...
...scarcely suspect that the cellist is only 22, the pianist 27. Jacqueline du Pré, a child prodigy in England and recent student of the Russian virtuoso Mstislav Rostropovitch, handles her cello as gloriously as any master three times her age; Los Angeles-born Stephen Bishop, former student of Myra Hess, makes an impressive partner...
...when it collapsed some years back, he was thrown into a deep depression. Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Jacob Lateiner and Leon Fleisher at one time all craved Old 199, and they passed it around among themselves so that each could have it for major concerts. Dame Myra Hess used to think of her pianos as so many husbands, once cabled Steinway...