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The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 30

Publication:
The Agei
Location:
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Issue Date:
Page:
30
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30 The Age, Saturday 23 May 1 98 1 8 weekend review Surface poetry that shocks and disturbs STALIN'S HOLIDAYS, by John Forbes (Transit Poetry; THE NEW AUSTRALIAN POETRY, edited by John Tranter (Makar Press; $22.50 hard cover; $12.95 paperback). THOMAS SHAPCOTT column because she had the smallest bottom in the company. The way up led through Andre Chariot's intimate revues, in which she did her own numbers and understudied a firm friend, Beatrice Lillie. They were packed off, nervously, with Jack Buchanan, to Broadway where their modest entertainment had to compete with the tinsel extravaganzas of Busby Berkeley and the like. To their surprise the New York critics rallied to their support with the enthusiasm of true anglophiles.

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