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The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, FtLis Eyes Walk-on'Role One Kiss, No Dialoguetole*ye.•yrksron*or-.vinthetwoandBy Terry Coleman Manchester Guardian Writer OXFORD, ENGLAND -“Miss Taylor, what do you do as Helen?”“Oh,” said Mrs. Richard Burton, tossing her hair towards Mr, Richard Burton, “all I do is kiss Richard and move around.”Has No Lines Burton and Taylor. And as Faust us and Helen, how exactly right they are. Starting next Monday, they play to- ' gether for a short week in “Dr. Faustus” at the playhouse here. Burton, who had his first chance here in a University Dramatic Society production of “Measure for Measure” in 1944, is playing for nothing, and Miss Taylor for love.Now Helen has not one line to say. Nothing. Wasn't she, asked a reporter, afraid that someone of her stature, in so small a part, might unbalance the play just drifting around in long robes? She hoped rtot.Favoring Professor“Ah,” said Burton, after a glance at her, “but she’ll unbalance me, I'll tell you.”Why Faustus? He had, said Burton, wanted to play the. part for 20 years. If he did it commercially, it might take a year of his life. Here he could do it in a few weeks.Besides, since Professor Nevill Coghill, the director, had started him off in 1944, and since this was the professor's last year at Oxford, he thought he might as well finish the professor off.And, said Burton tiie speech in the last scene in which Faustus begs for his soul was the greatest in Elgmsh drama. Bernard Shaw, he said, thought so and he was not sure that Shaw might not have been right.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Feb 12, 1966
Page 25
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