Actors: The Man on the Billboard

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happily with his children, taking Sybil out to dinner or the theater, and enjoying himself thoroughly before heading back to the Dorchester.

In his less insouciant moments, he tears himself to pieces, maddened with guilt. "Anonymous," he says is the word that describes him, for he has given up evejry-thing that truly matters to him. Borrowing Keats's epitaph, he says again and again, "My name is writ in water." Now that Sybil has gone to New York, he sits quandaried in London. Does he want to be the richest actor in the world, the most famous actor in the world, or the best actor in the world—and in what order? Or just a household word?

*Of whom Shakespeare prophetically wrote: Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Burton's voice and Welsh background also made him a natural for the documentary, A Tribute to Dylan Thomas, winner of a Hollywood Oscar a fortnight ago. *A housemaid's journal in Britain, now defunct. -Rex is suing.