27 MAY 2000, page 49

A Class Act

Sheridan Morley remembers John Gielgud, who died this week aged 96 . . . T he voice on my telephone about five years ago was unmistakably the voice of Hamlet, and faintly......

One Glorious Voice

I find myself singing a Sammy Cahn par- ody of 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' in which 'John Gielgud' rhymes with 'He's real good'. Stephen Sondheim used the same rhyme......