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Would you like a portable Television Eliot and Anouilh fl Radio Double Event By PAUL FERRIS gO ME weeks with a single programme, last week with two the same night, radio shows an efficiency and purposefulness that burn like rockets in the deepening twilight. The older generation of radio men is near retiring age and many of the younger are looking hopefully towards teievision, the B.B.C.'s or otherwise, where numbers of their colleagues have travelled already and now look back on sound with a cheerful contempt; but there's stil! a lot to do. On the Home Service was Min at Night, a play by Anthony Juan Skene from something called Les Visages de I'Orobre," a niece of sine-chiller based on improbability but wrapped up so ingeniously in Michael Bake-well's production that only sitting-room lawyers (the kind who telephone when Phil Archer's pigs give the wrong sort of squeal) would complain. An industrialist is blinded by an accident and goes on trying to run the factory from his home by the sea, surrounded by wife, partner, brother and servants. Mysteries accumulate.

White roses mm out to be red. He smells pine trees where there should be none. He traces his own name on a gravestone. It's not the same house, of course, and everyone is in the plot; to establish this and extricate him filled ninety minutes, with chords of music and some plangent sound effects to further the tension. Presumably good taste over the years has stopped blindness being exploited in radio drama, where die listening audience can share the blind one's situation; it showed its power here, and the play is sure to become a regular.

On the Third was A Case of Identity, a programme about his life by Patrick Anderson. The Radio Times, which frequently seems in conspiracy with the Third to hide the origin of programmes, explained nothing; the Press hand-out confirmed the name's familiarity (poet and teacher has given talks). But although it was one of the childhood-and-after pieces, slapped dawn at 7,30. lake it or leave it, the writing (and the production Douglas Cleverdon. as usual using music wherever he could) came off.

There was an odd sense of absolute veracity, an unusual cast of mind at work, interested in people without being, it seemed, particularly fond of them. The author did his own narrating and nearly tripped himself when he came to quintessential ambivalence." but otherwise it was a robust, confident affair. He is keeping an eye on things, taking the air, giving the dog at Hastings, living happily ever after. Photograph SKY KING HI 13-17-0 1 11 that really is reliable in every way exemplary designed to be contemporary? 1 jffl. SKY BABY battery tS(-txlre) jji fyf EVER READY because they know more VsZfr about making portables than anyone and they jgP don't charge too much for them either full slop ffgf, and insist on having Ever Ready batteries ior they're best too exclamation mark SKY PRINCESS 'tZ I 14.10.10 jf fl 2 jLiC I Tennessee Williams SCIENCE AMD THE SLICE Most moms' think bread is jus bread but Science is hi from being fobbed off wi ample explanations of this kind.

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With John Lehmanp, Alan Pryce ionea, John Raymond and Bernard Wail. Chairman John Wain. 12 B.1J p.m. Technology. Tomaa Maldonado The Pedagogical Impact of Autcmuulon Members 16 Quests Crime in Crotchets Solution to Paul Jennings's musical puzzle of last week A Cad Begged A Cafe Feed, Fed Face Beef, Cabbaoe, Cadged A Fag.

Gagged Aged Deaf Ada F.og, Dffaied Caff, B.crftGF Ad Dr Abed, A EUn Deed. Bad Egg Caged. portable jlSk people The By QUESTION Can we talk Answer. There's no other way we can talk. Perhaps you know that when your first successful play.

The Glass Menagerie," was revived early this season, a majority of the reviewers felt that it was still the best play you have written, although it is now twelve years oldl A. Yes, I read all my play notices and criticisms, even those that Bay that I write for money and that my primary appeal is to brutal and ugly instincts. Q. Where there is so much smoke I A. A fire smokes the mast when you start pouring water on it.

Q. But surely you'll admit that there's been a disturbing note of harshness and coldness and violence and anger in your more recent works' A. I think, without planning to do so, I have followed the developing tension and anger and violence of the world and time that I live in through my own steadily increasing tension as a writer and person Going Mad? Q. Then you admit that this developing tension," as you call it, is a reflection of a condition in yourself! A Yes. Q.

A morbid condition? A. Yes. Q. Perhaps verging on the psychotic? A I guess my work has always been a kind of psychotherapy for me. Q.

But how can you expect audiences to be impressed by plays and other writings that are created as a release for the tensions of a possible or incipient madman! A It releases their own. Q. Their own what! A. Increasing tensions, verging on the psychotic. Q.

You think the world's going mad! A Going? say nearly gone 1 As the Gipsy said in Camino Real," the world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny. Q. How far do you think you can go with this tortured view of the world! A As far as the world can go in its tortured condition, maybe that far, but no further. Q.

You don't expect audiences and critics to go along with you, do you? A No. Q. Then why do you push and pull them that way? A. I go that way. I don't push or pull anyone with me.

Q. Yes, but you hope to continue to have people listen to you. don't you? A. Naturally I hope to. Q.

Even if you throw them off a walk: he is an old fisherman by Michael Peto. Q. Do you think this is a peculiar virtue of yours as a writer? A I'm not sentimental about writers. But I'm inclined to think hat most writers, and most 'other, artists, too, ere primarily motivated in their desperate vocation by a desire to find and to separate truth from the complex of lies and evasions they Live in, and -I think that this impulse is what makes their work not so much a profession as a vocation, a true calling." Q. Why don't you write about nice people? Haven't you ever known any nice people in your life? A My theory about nice people is so simple that I am embarrassed to say it Understanding Q.

Please say it'. A. Well, 'I've never met one that I couldn't love if I completely knew him and understood him. and in my work i have at least tried to arrive at knowledge and understanding. I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes only in right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, iheir circumstances and their antecedents.

This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in. Why don't we meet these people and get to know them as I try to meet and know people in my plays? This sounds terribly vain and egotistical. I don't want to end on such a note. Then what shall I say 7 That I know that I am a minor artist who has happened to write one or two major works? I can't even say which they are.

It doesn't matter. I have said my say. I may still say it again, or I may shut up now. It doesn't depend on you, it depends entirely on me, and the operation of chance or Providence in my life. (The interview ends.) TO-DAY'S RADIO ROME (330 1.0, Newi; S.l, Morning Melody; 9Ji, Bird Song of Uw Month, 9.1.

Organ; MO. Service: H.1J, Encounters with Aniraili; 10.30, Music UM. Concert Choict: 12-10, Wiedersebeo id OenuchUnd; 12.25, Current Events; 1.0, News- 1.10, Country Questions; 1.40. Open it Home; lJt. Hone Crown: 2.30, Sympuony Concert; 3.45.

of Bookj; 4.1S. "Mr. WlUitrai ot Himburg 4.4S, Letter from America; SJt, Children: 5.50. Money Mitten; 6.0. Neva; 6.15.

At Home. TJ, The Critics; 7.45, -Service; 8.25. Good Cause: -3. The Moonstone 9J, News. 9.15, To Bnlid Country; 9J0, Piano; 9.55, State Visit to France, Le Palais de rElysee, 16.20.

About Music; 10 Epilogue; 11.0, Nevrt. LIGHT (1.500 247 S.0. Light Music; 8.30. Silver Chords; 9.0. News; 9.10, Home for the Day, lft.0.

Kings of the Keyboard: 10.30. Let the People Sing; 11.0, Or. Parade. 11.30, Service: 12.0. Family Favourites, 1.15.

BiCly Cotton: 1.45. Life with the Lyons; 2.15, Movie-Go-Round, 34. About Books. 3J0. Melody Hour; 4J0, Ray's a Laugh, 5.0, Down Your Way; 6.0.

Take It from Here. 6J0. The Stargazers Music Shop: 7.0. News; 7.30. Grand Hotel; i.30..

Hymas: 9.0, Calling Che Stars; 10.0. News: 10.15, Mainly for Men. 10.30. Carousel 11.0. Records, 11.55.

News. EVERYMAN Crossword By MAURICE RICHARDSON TWO very creditable and in-Structive play productions last; week: Anouilh's Time Remembered and Eliot' The Cocktail Patty. Both were well acted and well produced. One was an eyeball jerker; the Other, thouzh hv no means a barbiturate. didn't quite get there.

Which was wwen even tne most invoious fireside firefly should know by now that on television a didactic drama is always lengths in hand over a pretty fantasy. "The Cocktail Party" romped home. I had hoped that the piercing eye of the sincereometer might jut con-rvah1u'hftw lm ume of the stitch ing in ton brilliantly bespoke ohm spuuuiu Wilt Ul ViaJ Mr. Eliofs Sunday punch, at the end of the second act, against which we scientific humanists always appeal so came swinging across, I refer to the. revelation -mat fcoth Julia, the old Knigbtabridre rattle.

and tne epicene noayauaay, are really saint-agents of the Christ-psychiatrist. (I am not suggesting that KniEhtsbridc rattles and epicene fuddyduddies are disqualified from beinc very nice people. Do not confuse me with the editor of Pravda where is he now? who called Mr. Eliot a fascist hyena. But I cannot help sympathising with the vulgar materialist or (eddy boy objection that any conscientious Mum with' kids does more good in-one hardworking week-day than those layabouts in a month of Sundays.) Anyway, it made first-class fireside matinee.

Michael Barry's production was crisp and tidy, theatrical rather than cinematic correctly so in order to point the duologues. The marital recrimination scene across the psychiatrist's desk, more moving because more real than anything else in the play, was faultless. The cast was very staunch. John Robinson as Edward succeeded in looking oddly like Mr. Eliot himself.

Ralph Michael adapted himself camrily to the psychiatrist's part, being neither too quirky oof too bogus-spiritual but dominating. Marine Audley ASCelia looked rather too soijnda for. the Cross and the ant-heap but she' vibrated very satisfactorily. rPHE A.T.V. productioa of Tune.

Remembered, by Lionel Harris, was a most gallant televisual attempt, with full marks for decor. Natasha Parry looked enchanting as the little hat-shop girt. Margaret Rutherford, despite what 1 suspect1 is a cathode-ray-allergy common among certain extravert types, gave a sufficiently boisterous, performance -In her stage part as the dotty duchess. There any amount of but though often pleased I could never quite believe. Why, on the other band, should I be able to believe so easily In The Railway Children, the B.B.C.'s Sunday afternoon serial adapted from that children's wrilcr of genius.

F. Neshrl Now coming up or he seventh instalment, 1 recommend this most strongly to all connoisseurs of Edwardian nostalgia. It really sends you back into 1907. The bearded stanosmastcr, the golden-hearted porter, the old gentleman, the children' themselves and their indomitable mother (a magnificent performance by Jean Anderson), who supports them by writing stories while her husband is away yes, right away, in prison wrongfully convicted, of course seem like hallucinations of the past. On the stage they would be preposterous; on television they take on a mysterious super-reality, as if time bad been regained.

In the documentary department, in spite of new features such as Robin Day's Roving Report last week from Paris reasonably bright and intelligent and the- B.B.C.'s Now a moderately vivid but. rather long half-hour, in iron mine and smelting works Dimbleby stole the screen with his April fool about a spaghetti farm in Panorama. This was really quite neat. Why should it have aroused such passion AND TELEVISION TBBID (464 194 The Silver Tanio TJ0, HerocUide Acts I and 1.50, The indo-Europtani; 9.10, Opera Acts 3 and 10J0. Comment; 10.50-11.30.

Purcell. TELEVISION BJ.C 2J0. Hana and Lone Hats: 3Jt. Concert Hour: 3.30. Barm and Allen Show; 4.15.

Brains Trust; 3.W.15, Children; 7,0, Meeting Point; 7.25. Neva; 7J5. Paris Prepares; 7.45. Wbuu'l My Line ft.15. The Public Prosecutor 10.0, DiTcrtusemesK; 10.45, 10 JS.

Time for Prayers. I.T.V. (London). 2J0. Free Speech: 3.0.

Dual Airbi 4.25, Marstovaui. 5J0, Children, 3.55, Slater's Bazaar, News, 7.0. About Religion; 7.25, News; 7.30, I Love Lucy 04. At the London Palladium: 9,0, Hilda Morgan 10.0, Jackt Jackson Show; 10.30. Portrait of a Star, 1040.

News; 11.0. Epilogue. I.T.V. (Midlands and Manchester). 2.30.

Free Speech; iJt;" The LaSy frornlisbon 4.23, The Home of Health; 4J5, ABC Family Hour; 5.50, Store; News; 7.0, About Religion: 7.25, News: 7 JO. I Love 0J, At the London Palladium: 9.0. Hilda Morgan 194. Jack Jaclcson Show; 10.39, Box Office; 114, News; 11.15, Epilogue. No.

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Result next Sunday. 25 Place for a drink fluency (9) 1 The game's up 2 Put underground (5) 3 Decadently aesthetic (15) 4 Letters worn by 5 "Where are the '56 t0) 6 Depressed, with Men turn it turn 8 To disparage, 12 Masses of metal experiments (10) 13 Saying ball with 15 Reject joint set IB Vigour displayed 21 Monster of which 22 The street before The distinguished American playwright, whose Camino Real" opens to-morrow at the Phoenix Theatre, London, here asks himself some frank questions about his own work. by the violence and horror of your works? A. Haven't you noticed thai people are dropping all around you, like moths out of season, as the result of the present plague of violence and horror in this world and time that we live in? Q. But you're an entertainer, with artistic pretensions, and people are not entertained any more by cats on hot tin roofs and Baby Dolls and passengers on crazy streetcarsl A Then- let them go to the musicals and the comedies.

I'm not going to change my ways. It's bard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write. Q. Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A. Indeed I do think that I do.

Q. Such as what? A. The crying, almost screaming need of a great world-wide human effort to know ourselves and each other a gTeat'deal better. well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and and so forth. If people, and races and nations would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole.

Q. You sound as If you felt quite detached and superior to this process of corruption in society. A I have never written about any kind of vice which I can't observe in myself. Q. But you accuse society, as a whole, of succumbing to a deliberate mendacity, and you appear to find yourself separate from it as a writer.

A As a writer, yes, but not as a person. Co. HIGH MOUORN. LONDON. W.CI of rcur PonsJon Plvi.

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