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Scofield, Pleasence and Campbell only begin the list of British actors who seem to be taking over the U.S. stage. Sir Michael Redgrave lends luster to Graham Greene's otherwise mediocre The Complaisant Lover. John Mills is arriving this month in Ross, Terence Rattigan's play about Lawrence of Arabia, and Eric (Separate Tables) Portman is headed again for Broadway in an adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India...
...last year's hit London play Ross, Playwright Terence Rattigan attempted to probe the nature of Lawrence's wound. The play is built around a crucial incident in Lawrence's life. Posing as a light-skinned Circassian, Lawrence walked into Deraa to scout the defenses and was seized by the Turks. By Lawrence's own account, the Turkish commander tried to assault him sexually; when he refused to comply, he was whipped, bayoneted and finally sodomized by the guards, then set free. As Rattigan sees it, the Turks had recognized Lawrence, and were aware...
...episode at Deraa, Nutting rejects Rattigan's thesis, and believes that the Turks never suspected the identity of their captive; if they had, they would never have let him escape. The reason Deraa was a turning point in Lawrence's life, Nutting argues, was the horrifying discovery that he was at heart a masochist. For years Lawrence had indulged himself in private scourgings in the desert to toughen himself. "Pain," wrote Lawrence, "was a solvent, a cathartic, almost a decoration to be fairly worn." Lawrence confessed that under the Turkish whiplashes and bayonets "a delicious warmth, probably sexual...
Dennis, Mass., Cape Playhouse: Jane Wyatt and Billy Gray, who play mother and son in TV's Father Knows Best, repeat the relationship in Terence Rattigan's considerably less homespun O Mistress Mine...
...clerked in a dress shop in Topeka as an outpatient in Kansas' renowned Menninger Clinic, and had convinced her that he is a thoroughly reformed playboy. Said the bride: "Everything looks so beautiful today!" In London's Haymarket Theater, shortly before the curtain rose on Terence Rattigan's hit play Ross, a couple strolled down the aisle to Row G, soon complained to an usherette that another couple had usurped their No. 1 and 2 seats. The unwitting usurpers: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, enjoying an incognito evening out. Apologetically and still unrecognized...