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...only son off to a client's foundry in a small Canadian town for a summer's work to learn blue-collar life. After that there were summer jobs in Switzerland, Germany and Argentina, engineering and business studies, varsity football and tennis at Cornell. In his early 20s, Chuck Knight headed the European operations of Lester B. Knight & Associates, Inc.: in his early 30s, he took charge of the whole company. Then, startlingly, he revolted against Dad's grand plan...
...Revue Blanche. Like his bride, he lived for the enjoyment of art. Though the marriage was not permanent (nor were later ones to the fabulously rich speculator Alfred Edwards and the fashionable painter José-Maria Sert), the pattern of Misia's life was established in her 20s. She was surrounded by artists, for whom she was companion, model and muse. "Misia never claimed to be a sexual athlete; that was for the ladies of the demimonde," write Gold and Fizdale. "Still, she took it for granted that not only was her husband in love with...
...Scuttlers), 1976, strikes a fine balance between whimsy-the flurried vaudevillian movement of the wooden legs-and presence, for there is something edgy and insect-like about these funny apparitions: they are cousins to the bugs and beasties that swarm in Miró's paintings of the '20s...
...Golden Honeymoon would seem an especially hazardous undertaking. Like many Lardner stories, this account of an elderly couple's Florida vacation is told in '20s slang by an inarticulate character. The narrator here is a gabby, boorish husband who never really grasps that he is describing a near fatal crisis in his 50-year marriage. As he prattles lightly about painful events, the gap between his words and deeds becomes the basis for a classic black comedy...
Director Lament Johnson's Paul's Case is also a tragedy ripe with '20s detail. Paul is a dreamy high school kid who yearns to escape wintry Pittsburgh for the Broadway high life he has read about in Sunday supplements. Once he achieves his goal-by stealing money-his ambitions are easily satisfied. He takes a suite at the Waldorf, buys clothes and eavesdrops on the swells. Unfortunately, he has no idea how to turn his briefly realized fantasy into a lasting reality...