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Married. William Turner Walton, 46, British composer (Belshazzar's Feast and the musical score for Olivier's Henry V and Hamlet); and Susana Gil de Passo, 22, daughter of an Argentine lawyer; in a religious ceremony five weeks after a civil ceremony; in Buenos Aires...
Shakespeare: Hamlet (spoken excerpts by Sir Laurence Olivier, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Muir Mathieson conducting; Victor, 6 sides). In addition to Laurence Olivier's fine soliloquizing, music lovers can hear on this album how good movie music can be. English Composer William Walton did a lot in Olivier's Henry V to lift the standards of film scores; in Hamlet he raises a craft to an art. The score never intrudes, but accompanies the spoken word like an orchestra accompanying the piano or violin in a concerto. Recording: good...
...State Department underlings, led by William Walton Butterworth Jr., director of Far Eastern Affairs, insisted that no such public announcement be made. They argued that a public reversal of policy would cause the U.S. to lose face. That left the nation's China policy right where it was before: saving face and losing China...
Elegance of Line. The play-within-a-play is handled with high elegance and tension, in sinister dumb show, accompanied by the snarling archaic charm of the music William Walton composed for the occasion. The camera, always holding the mimes at distant center, steals in a lordly semicircle past the enormous heads of the guilty, the guileless, and the pitilessly watchful; and rising whispers, like leaves in a storm-foreboding wind, underline the shock and horror of this deadly piece of court satire. From there on, the film arches in unbroken grandeur and intensity...
Your article about the retirement of the George School's able principal [TIME, Feb. 23] brings to mind an incident that illustrates 'the Pope's" [George A. Walton] Friendly understanding and treatment of his students. Returning from Quaker Meeting in nearby Newtown one Sunday morning, my roommate and I could not resist the temptation to throw stones through the windows of a coal shed. . . . The irate owner pursued us up the racks but, being in training for soccer at the ime, we soon outdistanced...