Evening star., 1960-01-16

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the face was going into a Sligh
To outward appearance, tt
marks on one of the era's most
energetic fauns. But only out
wardly. The photographers
asked for a picture as Enrol
stood at the plane door
mot without a drink" Enrol
bargained.
A stewardeSs disappeared in
side the cabin, came back with
a glass of champagne. Flynn
lifted it in a toast to Berlin,
life, photographers and a pal
ate that could always use a
drink. A few minutes later in
bne of Berlin's swank, modern
hotels, he was angrily calling
an airline to take him back to
Paris and out of a hotel suite
that he deemed unfit for a
Flynn like Enrol.
A man of mercurial moods,
this Flynn. The fruits of these
moodS-sour, ripe and over
ripe-he has set down in a
lurid, defiantly frank autobi-
ography, MY Wicked. Wicked
Ways" The shocking candor
of, Flynn'S last testament de-
mandS explanation, and Errol
is no public figure to evade
such a demand
One of the troubles with life,
he keeps saying, is that it be-
comes an hypocrisy. This is not
going to happen to him if he
can find a way of avoiding it.
He finds many ways and those
who regard these as hardly ap-
provable are, in Flynn's esti-
mate, the kind of hypocrites
that he scorned to be.
Although he makes no direct
comparison, a major impress
sion of Flynn's Wicked,
Wicked Ways" is that his major
interest was continuing the ex-
pertinent which so absorbed
Casanova. He and the oppo-
site sex found each other mu-
tually irresistible.
Out of their joint research.
Flynn reached a number of
conclusions, most of these lack
ing originality, or new light on
rather an old area of human
adventure.
There is one exception to this
rule in Flynn's case, however.
Over the years it becomes his
fixed impression that his has
been inaccurately labeled the
aggressor sex. This he sums up
racily: You may think they
love YOUR deep dark eyes .
but they are as interested in
dough as they are in what they
eat, wear and where they live.
They may be only human and
it may be right or wrong, but
thinking that women are out
for some rare romanticism is
bull. They call it love but it
spells h-o-u-s-e."
Flynn makes great point of
this discovery, but it is not lost
upon the reader that he never
was able to make practical use
Of it. On the contrary, the
more he found himself be-
trayed. the more enthusiastic
he became for the next be-
trayal.
This does not seem very
bright of him, and the same
observation may be made of
the autobiography he has left
as legacy to posterity.
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SATURDAY SUMMARY:
The Nationals next two at
fractions will be proving that
not all the most lustrous stars
are reluctant to take to the
road" These will be Mary
Stuart" opening next Monday,
with Eva LIE Gallienne and
6igne Hasso 1t will fol-
lowed by the Lunts in Fried
rich Duerrenmatt's "The Visit"
-. The latter is a chiller which
is the Lunts' rebuttal of the
charge they keep playing the
same play under different titles.
Arena Stages widely and
highly regarded professional
ism will begin to make itself
felt in community drama start
ing tomorrow. The occa-
sion is the first of a series of
monthly seminars on stage di-
rection. conducted by F. Cowles
Strickland. Mr.. Strickland,
Arenas resident director, is one
of the dramas most honored
teachers, for one reason an
18-year stretch at Leland
Stanford University. . Speak
ing of Arena and directors,
Alan Schneider whose Cherry
Orchard" opened here Tuesday
night had another opening in
New York on Thursday. d.
The latter, the one-character
"Klapp's Last Tape" Alan di-
rected in part while here. T..
Inst had his actor cnrne doJrro