All Actors
IT was in another age, though not so long ago, that the Bolshoi Company bravoed and rhythmically clapped Harry Andrews's Othello at Stratford-on- Avon. What sort of noises would they have made if the part had been played by Michael Redgrave? His biographer, Richard 'Findlater, in Michael Redgrave : Actor (Heinemann, 18s.) describes well the reasons for the non-existence of Redgrave's Othello and these passages display excellently the rapport between biographer and subject. This work is to be put very high indeed—possibly right at the top—of recent theatrical biographies. Mr. Trewin's Paul Scofield (Rocklin, I5s.) is a more modest achieve- ment, better illustrated, but naturally with less for the author to get a grip on. 'He should have been biographed hereafter' seems , to be The verdict on
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