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"PATRIOT" CONTINUES LONDON HIT

Osborne's "A Patriot For Me" continues to be a sensation at London's Royal Court theater, accord-ing to numerous news sources, and since the production is not allowed to advertise publicly, the theater is said to have become a kind of "private club for members only." Actor Maximilian Schell, who plays the lead, has naturally fallen under intense scrutiny, but he is nonchalant about it all. Schell, who can' afford to turn down plays by the dozen if he doesn't like the parts offered, merely says: "I'm an actor, and I'd play a Negro nun if it were a decent part. In Judgment at Nuremberg I played a man who defended a group. of Nazis who

popped Jews in the oven like ginger-snaps and nobody got excited. They even gave me an Academy Award, and you know the movie industry is loaded with Jews. They didn't call me a Negro because ! played Othello. But just play a homosexual and you've had it... Of some London critics, and their shocked reactions to the play, he comments: "Trouble is, some of them are homosexuals themselves, and everybody knows it. They just couldn't take it. It's the first time they've come face to face with it, and the intimacy of the scenes ceased being a theatrical experience for them. They went away buckling in the knees, and hating Osborne for what he had exposed.

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