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...distinguished visitors' gallery of Britain's House of Lords, high-spirited Cinemactress Vivien Leigh listened impatiently to debate on the proposed demolition of London's 122-year-old St. James's Theatre (which Actress Leigh had protested two days before by marching down the Strand ringing a handbell). Fuming as Baron Blackford described the St. James's as "simply an obsolete, Victorian, inconvenient, uncomfortable playhouse with no architectural or historic value," she leaped to declaim: "My lords, I want to protest against St. James's Theatre being demolished!" While their lordships sat in stunned...
...White Suit (at Loew's Strand Theatre in Back Bay through tonight). The semi-science-fiction classic from the Alec Guinness canon of comedy...
...signs are visible everywhere. British-not U.S.-cars choke Piccadilly, British weekers jam vacation resorts at Blackpool and Brighton. Simpson's in the Strand is serving its famed roast beef, and in poor neighborhoods, stores whose stock in trade was once chiefly Brussels sprouts and potatoes now feature oranges and even avocados. Across the North Sea. Scandinavians are thriving. Norway has rebuilt its merchant fleet to twice its prewar tonnage, added 100 hotels since 1945. Norwegian housewives, who bought only 2,000 washing machines in 1950, snapped up 64,000 last year. Even in chronically impoverished Ireland, real national...
...Kenneth Clark's closely-argued and intelligent volume on the development of the nude traces both a central strand of art criticism and presents a view of life. Perhaps the book is more interesting in the insights it implies into the nature of man, for attempts to create empathy with a personal reaction to works of art are not always entirely convincing...
Letting the rest of the world go by, Britain's ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and wife Clarissa basked on the sunny strand of New Zealand's subtropic Otehei Bay, a favorite operating base for deep-sea fishermen. Eden, still bedded periodically by his gall-bladder ailment, left Britain in mid-January...