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...WILLIAM WALTON: FAçADE (Decca). At the 1923 London première of Façade, Edith Sitwell read her poems, with their witty musical accompaniment by her young friend Walton, into the mouth of a mask painted on the curtain hiding her from view. Public and critics alike pronounced the evening an outrage. But the musical "entertainment" has been revived again and again, currently in this recording by Actress Hermione Gingold and Countertenor Russell Oberlin, with Thomas Dunn conducting the small chamber ensemble. Unfortunately for them, Dame Edith herself, with Peter Pears, has performed the work for London...
...lives with her husband, Set and Costume Designer Tony Walton, and two-year-old daughter in a rented Spanish villa with a warm-water pool in Coldwater Canyon. She doesn't smoke, but she will now and then take a little brandy and soda. With ice? Unthinkable. She would love to be able to play tennis, but she says she is too awkward: "If I throw a ball overhand," she says, "I without fail will be flat on my bottom." She confides that she would really "like to be a sexy bombshell. But I'm not and never...
Child Frealc. She and her husband both come from Walton-on-Thames* in Surrey, and have known each other since 1947, when he was 13 and she twelve. Julie, whose mother and stepfather were musical vaudevillians, was a professional singer even then...
Many of the other performers, particularly Paula Wayne, who plays Joe's white girlfriend and his manager's mistress, give life to roles the book only sketches out. The sparse sets are brilliantly backed by a series of realistic and impressionistic photographs of New York projected on screens. Tony Walton's designs do much of the work of director Peter Coe. These afford continuous movement from scene to scene and establish changes of emotional coloring within scenes and songs by their own changes in perspective and color...
...Platform Committee hoopla came over the appearances of the presidential candidates and their top supporters. But during its preconvention week the committee, chaired by Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird, also took testimony from spokesmen for some 170 organizations, ranging from Americans for Democratic Action to the Izaak Walton League and the American Committee for the Independence of Armenia...