onvon.” (Neuter) =:
verybody. I’ know now

ig elton ‘deaf or blind or
aga,” Sit John’ Gielgud :
sive wryly as he ponders
i ‘approaching -80th

bj nay on “Saturday,

Tiree ’ pink-cheeked
atid’. patsleton Gielgud
himself is none of these
things. After nearly 60
years at the tap, oneof the.
most famous Hamlets of
the century and a recent

. Oscar winner, the British

actor’ knight is. in ex-
cellent form.

He ‘works | regular]y in’
films and ‘television and
hépes to return to ‘the
Stage after a gap of aix
years. ~

“But I don't think
there's any. point In going

ko. unless. it’s
sped I really feel I
a6 “better” than ~
anybody else,"" he says.
+The. National Theatre
offeted ‘me ‘Waiting ‘for’
Godot; but T’ve never
beén able to come to
terms with Beckett, YU"
never forget seeing it at
the Criterion Theatre. It -
was so gloomy. People
walked about in the in-
terval as if stricken by
plague.”

Glelgud’ dissuaded Sir
Ale¢ Guinness and the
late Sir Ralph Richardson
from acting in the 1952
premiers of the play, a

wopk): by ‘Irish Nobel
pHzewinner Samuel
B ¢kett which Is hailed by
;asa masterpiece of
mgdern drama.

Born in 1904 with acting»
inddis blood — his father’s
grandmother was a
fafpous actress in Poland
and Ellen Terry, a great-
aunt on his mother’s side,
was longtime “leading
lady to the great Vic-
torian actor Sir Henry
(rving — Gielgud says he
has’an old-fashioned view
of the theatre.

“Ii suppose I'm very
old, ¢/. tomantic . and

‘escapist. I like to see a

gopd.story and some good
acting and some
dramatic conflict.

“I don't know why the
trend is to get rid of things
that make it attractive —.
the curtains, igs
collights -the-mupia-
thaiihanoestos wer vec
someone else’s life.”

He. always wanted to
work for the stage, though
his.first ambitions were te
bea designer. -

“But I had a certain
amount of talent as an

' Avenue

very.determined because:
I wanted.‘to ‘succeed, I .
wanted to be a star. The
idea of having my name.

‘sito and then V became.

“portunities of ‘cinema,

although he did appear in‘

a silent film:in 1921,

_. “always. felt. Twas -
‘doing them in| my: spare”

up in lights in Shaftesbury..time,?” he says.

dn.” Londan’s
theatre. district). was. an’
absolute manta,”’. .~

He achieved - ‘stardom.

early. At 21,- -he succeeded

‘the author. in ‘the lead of -

Noel Coward's play ‘The
Vortex and: has ‘topped
bills all over‘ the world
ever since, Poe

in 1928, at the Old Vie,
he played his first Hamlet
and began’ to, ‘make’ his
reputation.
Shakespenreny actor...

alternated —

mereicic and’ Romeo with

Laurence Olivier in his.

own production‘ of Romeo
and Juliet aitd by 1939had
Played -all- the major
Shakespearean parts at
- which -he-had aimed.

‘Many regardhim as: athe
finest: "| speaker. of
Shakespearean. verse iin

the history’ of | ‘British:

theatre, ‘although ° “ he

. describes his technique as

“very slapdash,”’ ’

“I read a play thite or’

four times and try to
smell the atmosphere as

best Ecan. I try always to’

work impulsively and séa
what I produce from
myself."

. He was ‘knighted in
1953; By: the mid-1950s,
with the advent of the
“angry: young . men,”
writers like John Osborne

~ and Arnold Wesker, he

~ 3 Cassius. | in-

_ Shakespeare’s
~ Caesar in 1952, but since
ther his film work has ff

* “But T think I made:a
“yather fash mistake in '34-
when “Alexander -Korda
‘effered'-to film: :Hamlet.
‘rand 1 tossed my head and
said ‘I'm not very in--

‘terésted” ‘in - films.'. ‘He
‘never: offered = mé.
anything ‘else. : . About

the same time he gave a
number of my. friends

. huge contracts ‘and they
oi ‘made very fine money.'"
co er

Gielgud says he has
never made much money

. inthe theatre and says he
nearly emigrated to the

‘United ‘States because of

ihigh taxes under Labor
“governments in the 1970s.

He, did

critical

‘appear ta
acclaim ag
> Joseph
Mankiewiez's

‘been mainly fn cameo
roles..
Only . >

inde” Arthur

- (1981), in wi ich he played oo

a foul:mouthed English

buller ‘to Ditdley. Moore's

drunken - millionaire
playboy - and: won,. ‘an

‘Academy Award as: best“

supporting, actor, has the
money. ‘Teally’

pouring in.. :
‘He works for a few days
& month and retires. to the.

seemed old-fashioned to TR

many.

“the tradition of tiie -

theatre so
got bogged down — I

wasn't very interested fam

‘terested me that I rather fale

when the angry young fie
men cattie out. But as the fa

young writers began to

get - middle-aged, they as

became more interested
in old age.”

So although hostile to fi

the kind of minimalist
modern theatre

‘represented by Beckett,
_ he found success again in

new works by Harold

Pinter, David Storey and §
Alan Bennett. In 1968, he &

starred asa headmaster

re Rorty: Years 7k
Oe ne “He played i

with his friend Richard- &

son in Storey’s Home.
The two played again in

Pinter’s No Man's Land iim

in 1975.
Unlike Olivier, Gielgud

was slow to see the op- [an

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Cholce of two
ins coal, wrink!
reent cot

7 iarge
‘outside Landon where he:
'. has lived since 1976.

"he ‘finds amazing. — a

eountry = house

This month, he is.

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embryo, a 6%-pound ‘girl’

film 7 of
Julius.

come :

arn the,-exeeption of
certaiti Shakespearean
roles, Gielgud has never
liked. to -rehash past
successes. He recently
declined the opportunity
to revive Forty Years On
and to play the inquisitor
in Shaw’s Saint Joan:

So though impatient to
get back to the stage,
Gielgud is waiting for the
right role.

Fr rozen embryo

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