Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 5

-I I I -v iw- wv-i'V' -w' RICHARD BURTON is back in Wales Not exactly in the land of his fathers This coal-cutter beaten his record For Ifor and his wife Burton iuo nuC am wwll has built a chalet in the garden where Ifor has recovered from liUIU A relaxed Richard Surton plays draughts outside a Swiss cafe the after-effects of a wartime shell Bush he Is he declared free man for the first time 1 In years" one has taxation But Wales Is the new name that the actor-ln-exile has put on the gate of his Swiss home And Welsh indeed is the local colour inside Pays de Galle a bug secluded villa about 10 miles from Geneva surrounded by vines and stocked with Jenkinses Fierce family loyalty is one of the strongest forces in Barton's life Bernard Mermaid (a new play about Alexander the Great has been on the carpet for many moons) There a year-limit in his King Arthur contract So a chance that we might see one of our best actors on the stage again in 19611 in Hampstead One house In Wales for my sister One Jaguar And £2000 in the bank" Yet Celigny just a refuge for Burton a real second home been accepted as a Swiss citizen Like every other citizen been issued with a rifle to defend his country As I saw this month Switzerland hums with good theatre And when he wants to go A mm lll II 0 And now he is free to work for six months of the year in Britain which he left in 1956 in frank revolt against the demands of the Inland Revenue One date remains In the Immediate future: on the 30th he flies back to America for a TV spectacular of Ernest The Fifth Column It with three other to distinguish him from the golden gang of romantic leads at the summit The other It was as one of the 13 Jenkinses that Burton was born 34 years ago near Port Talbot I found a few of them last I Celigny things I submit' are adour candour his sharp intellect and His diaries further afield Sybil and I can be in Paris in 45 minutes and his blazing theatrical talent But what is he going to DO with that talent? A musical where the miner's son from Pont- Once upon a time he seemed to be the white hope of the English stage an artist who rhydy en one of older jalopy we walked up to the little railway cafe for a would give fresh vigour to the great but eroded tradition of MEANWHILE Burton is continuing the diaries in every he jots down in "crypto-grammatic form the inner secrets of an actor's working life: They date right back to his first role at Oxford when he talked himself Into the star-part of Angelo in Measure for Measure And they promise to be a unique revelation of theatrical method come back after the Burton likes living in Switzerland I can certainly see why Yet I am glad to report that he still loves the theatre Nothing he has ever done in films he admitted has ever him as an actor a raction of the satisfaction he has found in working on the stage He Is smouldering with the ambition to tackle some of the lunch drink of white wine the brew from the Burton vineyards yet ready for consumption) ave beta already nd a boy classic acting Turning down fat film jobs to play at the Old I want to get as many big parts as I can under my he told me then stirred up the shallows of Cross-talk AND what then Apart from a determination to learn Russian his plans are unsettled until Sepetmber when he begins rehearsals for the new Lerner-Loewe musical on Broadway about King Arthur so they say on White's The Once and Future King But I learned last week that there is no immediate prospect of Burton's return to the London or to Britain as a permanent home For this one solid reason remains The taxman In one year in Britain Burton explained wryly he earned from seven films about on Christ-said Dr hope to the Net Shakespearean style Yet it's over three great classic roles notably Richard II and and to top-paid has just returned from another dollar spinning year in Hollywood And with the Jenkins clan 1 met the latest Burton production -Jessica then 23 days old Like her rider sister Kate (at two youngest Lady Macbeth in the business" says her father relaxing his stubbornly unsentimental mask) Jessica was bom without anaesthetics by natural childbirth Welsh too is her mother Sybil vho comes from the same corner of the Principality but the other side of the fence (her father managed a mine) Havinj parked the Cadillac ie somewhat years now since Burton was seen in the London theatre And teio of his HERE some of his richer neighbours (including the one with eight cars but not I gather tne one with 16 wives) enjoy the French cooking side by side with the local villagers real democracy ghns however successful at the office have given him much ssed For although Burton insists that he hates stage-land gossip is Immune to the excitement of theatrical atmospherics and avoids reading books about his own profession he is a dedicated artist and I think a great actor in the making find the right way for our time of delivering Shakespearean verse And it is only on the British stage he knows that he can do this On Broadway it just the same" Both Stratford and the Old Vic have invited him to join them The only other theatre in wh'ch Burton wants to act Is scope tor acting been in a lot of rubbish as you know" he says casually in parenthesis Having just worked out his contractors! obligations bv making Ice Palace and The Bramble IAWLEY 1 former ster has project tfonckton entral paper "What did 1 have left? 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