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...dreamers dared hope for a postwar caterpillar with the voice of Nelson Eddy and the brains of Aldous Huxley. But cinemaddicts may soon get just that. The Walt Disney studios have announced some ambitious plans for the next five years...
During the '20s, when British Novelist Aldous Huxley was writing sexy, sophisticated novels (Point Counter Point), the fashionable thing was humanistic materialism. By this week it was plain that the times and Author Huxley have changed: the new vogue is mysticism...
Mystical Movement. Of late, Prabhavananda's teaching has attracted enough expatriate English literary men to create a minor but noteworthy literary movement. Novelist Aldous Huxley, ultra-sophisticate of the 1920s, studied privately with the swami. His latest novel, Time Must Have a Stop, bears the marks of his study. Erudite Philosopher Gerald Heard (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity), son of an Anglican churchman and a professed agnostic since youth, was another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta...
...Author. Since settling (1938) in California, where climate and treatment have helped his ailing eyesight, Aldous Huxley has collaborated on two cinema scripts (Pride and Prejudice; Jane Eyre), written five books. Now 51, he lives with his wife Martha on a lonely ranch near Llano in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles from Los Angeles. "The only social life,"he says, "is with the cows." The Huxleys' son Matthew, 22, is a reader for Warner Bros...
Author Huxley has no current commitments in Hollywood, no plans for returning to England. He is at present completing The Perennial Philosophy-"a kind of anthology with comments-an anthology of the highest common factors in world religion and metaphysical systems." For his own craft as novelist and poet, Aldous Huxley now has small respect. Says Sebastian in Time Must Have a Stop: "Even the best play or narrative is merely glorified gossip. . . . And lyric poetry? Just 'Ow!' or 'Oo-ooh!'or 'Nyum-nyum!' or 'Damn!' or 'Darling...