Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official censorship was greeted with rejoicing by the London theater; last week there was a mock-serious funeral service for the royal censor in Chelsea. Meanwhile, Hair's actors executed what one critic called "a triumphal dance over the grave of the Lord Chamberlain." High time. With offices in the Palace of St. James's, the Lord Chamberlain is the senior officer of the royal household. Yet he and his four readers have also played the role of arbiters of public taste, passing judgment on some 800 new scripts each year. Their esthetic qualifications have been uncertain...
Hairy Filth. Still, most authors would rather see the Lord Chamberlain concentrate on his other duties, such as arranging Buckingham Palace garden parties and caring for the royal swans. In London's West End, arrangements are now being made to bring back such once banned plays as Jean-Claude van Itahe's America Hurrah and Rolf Hochhuth's Soldiers. "We are at last released from the tyranny of the theatrical leaseholder," says Osborne dryly. "There will probably be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of cheerful, decent, serious...
...then there is button-on-a-string. Versions of this simple plaything may be as old as the Pyramids. But that did not deter Kramer Designs of Royal Oak, Mich., from producing a pop copy with twin twirling plastic disks in psychedelic hues. When the string is pulled taut, the disks whirl apart, then clop together in mid-spin, sounding like a shark with loose plates chewing on an oyster. Op-Yop is its name. At $1 each, Kramer has sold 1,000,000 of them to date, confidently expects to sell another million by Christmas...
...rest, Saville has done well enough by Sophocles. The English version by Poet-Translator Paul Roche is both dignified enough for the classic matter and nimble enough for the modern manner, in which the actors and chorus are deployed all over the amphitheater, not just in front of the royal palace. Orson Welles is appropriately resonant as the blind Tiresias-though he appears so massive that it is hard to imagine his having been turned into a woman, as the legend has it. Lilli Palmer's Jocasta manages to be at once regal, sexy and maternal in this famous...
...cost housing for the people who need it most--just so long as it also sends Harvard and MIT packing across the river. Now if we don't do that, our future generations will be the subjects of that Harvard and they will all owe their allegiance to that royal messiah, Nathan M. Pusey...