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Chirped the London Daily Mirror one morning last week: HERE WE ARE AGAIN. Shouted the big, black headlines in the Daily Sketch: AT LAST IT'S OVER. READ ALL ABOUT IT. After 26 days, London's newspaper strike was settled. Queueing up at the stands, news-hungry Londoners snapped up papers so fast that the extra-heavy press runs could not keep up with the demand. Since the strike caused some 50 million readers to miss three of the most exciting events in recent British history, i.e., the change of Prime Ministers, the announcement of a general election...
...London, Expatriate Orson Welles began a new filmed TV series over the BBC. Called Orson Welles Sketch Book, the one-man show will feature Welles telling stories about bullfighting and black magic, or just chatting. None of the subjects seems capable of scaring the British as successfully as Welles did New Jerseyites with his Martian broadcast...
This is an appealing little autobiographical sketch, now published in English, by a writer who was as close to the folk stream of East European Jewish life as blintzes and borsch. In countless stories (The Old Country, Adventures of Mattel) he humorously chronicled the bittersweet life of the late 19th-century eastern ghettos-pious, self-contained, but poised on the brink of a new Diaspora to Western Europe and America. Born Solomon Rabinowitz, and raised in the little village of Voronko, Russia, the hero of The Great Fair is a "pretty boy with fat red cheeks," who can convulse...
Nothing much has been added actually. The new introduction has the twin virtues of being crisper and spoken by Clare Scott. Miss Scott promises fun with a light touch which the rest of the evening can now deliver pretty consistently. The "To the Manor Bron" sketch and the concluding bit could both be shaved again, but with the changes already made in the show, these slow-ups are by far the exceptions. The pace is dazzling now: director Ed Golden being responsible for the production's sharp aim and high gloss...
...verse, however, which accompanies and gains substance or non-substance from the pictures deserves closer scrutiny. This verse appears in many cases within the sketch itself, in what may be described as either a cloud or a balloon. The opening lines create such a frenetic and frightening effect, that I will quote them out of context and with no possible frame of reference, as is the current predilection...