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ART OF THE THEATRE
FILMS AND IMAGINATION
English Players’ Visit
Of the English stage at the moment Mr. Hannen takes an optimistic view. A number of really big successes were now running in London, he said. One was the historical play “Richard of Bordeaux,” put on by John Gielgud, one of the younger lights of the stage.
The West Australian, 1933
Clyde sat by the easel in the conservatory, smoking. The moon bequeathed enough light to define the ferns and pick out the petals of orchids in bloom. Evelyn Waugh had finally gone. Everybody else, as far as he knew, had retired, exhausted by the rigours of being civil. Now that he thought about it, Clyde was inclined to feel a little sorry for the Murcotts. Hosting that dinner party must have been like negotiating a minefield protected onl
