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...back some 4½ centuries-to the angriest young man of 1517. Osborne's newest play, Luther, attempts to present the father of Protestantism as a kind of Jimmy Porter of the Reformation. Starring Actor Albert (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) Finney, the play opened this week in Nottingham, a British tryout town, will spend the summer in "off-Broadway" London and on tour, including the Edinburgh Festival and Paris' Théâtre des Nations (see below). Like most plays on the road, Luther may change before London's critics first see it next month...
Congratulations on your excellent photograph of Nottingham University. At first glance, I was unable to account for the absence of student life on the lawns and lake, but on reading the article it became quite clear that at the time we were either working hard, at the chemist's buying tranquilizing pills, or attending group therapy classes...
...Nottingham, England...
Padded Cells. Sprouting between steel mills and shipyards, in grimy Liverpool, Manchester or Nottingham, redbricks* were originally founded to nurture local talents. Amenities were few: Leicester's main building (sooty yellow brick) was once the county asylum; the library still has padded cells. Redbrick graduates, generally 9-to-5 commuter students with no chance for donnish tea and tutorials, were hardly considered "educated"-though they included such talents as Novelists D. H. Lawrence (Nottingham) and C. P. Snow (Leicester). Oxbridge so scorned the breed that to this day it insists on calling redbrick Ph.D.s...
...relentlessly naturalistic, and his technique seldom shows on the surface. Like Look Back in Anger's star, Kenneth Haigh, Finney typifies the antiromantic, non-U hero who has emerged from the new social realism of the British theater. But as the rough and uneducated Arthur Seaton, a Nottingham lathe operator who fairly hums with the joy of doing wrong, Actor Finney is far more believable than was Actor Haigh as angry Jimmy Porter, and is something of a reflection of Finney himself when he delivers the line: "I'd like to see anyone try and grind me down...