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The other significant feature of that 1951 production of The Eagle Has Two Heads was the arrival of Madhur Bahadur in my life. Four days before we opened, we found out that the girl who was playing the rather important role of the Queen's Reader in the play had eloped with her lover and was untraceable! There was no understudy and we were really seriously in trouble. But a boy called Bahadur bailed us out by suggesting that we audition his cousin, Madhur, who was studying for her BA at Miranda House, a prestigious girls' college attached to Delhi University, and who had acted in her college productions. Along came this thin young girl in yellow pedal pushers, wearing glasses over a prominent nose. She auditioned brilliantly, impressed us all and made the part completely her own. In the play the Queen's Reader resents Azrael, the new man in the Queen's life. But in real life, M – for that was her nickname – and I fell madly in love with each other.
Jim used to talk to me and write down notes about a film which would feature a Shakespeare company touring America, obviously inspired by own experiences with Players Inc.
M finally got me to confess about my affair with the dancer from the Indian dance troupe. She was deeply wounded by it and nothing I said or did – my making passionate love, my crying, and kissing her feet begging her forgiveness – nothing, healed her wound. I started drinking fairly heavily out of a sense of guilt, and the children were often frightened and distressed by the quarrels between the parents. The whole calm, loving atmosphere of warmth and caring started to crack up and our older daughters, Zia and Chubby, were deeply affected by this change.
Latest news of Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike, who are at present touring the East, is that they are now in Calcutta. They will spend a short time there before flying to Hong Kong to see their daughter-in-law, Mrs. John Casson, who is recovering from an operation, and their granddaughter, Penny. Highlight of their tour of India was a moon light visit to the Taj Mahal. They flew there in Prime Minister Pandit Nehru's plane, which was lent to them for the occasion.
The brightest part of the evening is the sensitive acting of Saeed Jaffrey and Madhur Jaffrey. Some of their colleagues, however, are not so skillful.
Although cooking has become an ardent pastime in the life of Madhur Jaffrey, her interest in cooking with a certain panache came about, as it has for many another young New Yorker, through necessity. The young woman is an actress who appears in the well-received Indian film "Shakespeare Wallah." (Kenneth Tynan, the London critic, called her performance "a ravishing study in felinity.")
