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...stranded British private. Flora Robson adds snap as a visiting lady M.P., but the pick of the lot is Richard Attenborough. As a starched and polished relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of keeping with the age of Kenyatta, Attenborough turns a cliché into a memorable character sketch-etched most sharply when he raises his glass in a brusque farewell toast to the glories of Empire, then hurls drink and all at a portrait of the Queen...
CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. A band of incredibly funny young Cambridge graduates, with a revue that thinks small and carries a big slapstick. Laughter is all but incessant, and the most hilarious sketch of the evening is a bewigged theater-of-the-absurd British courtroom trial involving a dwarf...
CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. A band of incredibly funny young Cambridge graduates, with a revue that thinks small and carries a big slapstick. Laughter is all but incessant, and the most hilarious sketch of the evening is a bewigged theater-of-the-absurd British courtroom trial involving a dwarf...
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MARTIN DUBERMAN: IN WHITE AMERICA (Columbia). A sharply etched historical sketch of the U.S. Negro from slave days, drawn from letters, speeches and reminiscences. Narrated by six actors, it has been running off Broadway for nearly a year, and it makes compelling if painful listening. Thomas Jefferson describes the differences between blacks and whites as he sees them. During the Civil War, a South Carolina white woman nervously describes her slaves "going about in their black masks," sensing freedom in the air. John Brown, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Father Divine, Walter White are all heard from, but the most...