Theater
June, 1962
The odds are that no one will ever give a completely satisfactory explanation of the enigma known as Lawrence of Arabia, but Terence Rattigan takes an elliptical shot at it in Ross. If he fails to score a bull's-eye, he achieves, at least, a theatrically impressive theory of why the Uncrowned King of the Desert, who led the Arab nations in revolt against the Turks during World War I, and wound up in a Royal Air Force barracks as a pseudonymous nonentity, Aircraftman Ross. Rattigan calls his play...
