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...nation's biggest public library is actually a private triumph-the work of three rich, generous New Yorkers who never saw the final result. In 1848 immigrant Fur Tycoon John Jacob Astor left $400,000 to start the Astor Library; in 1870 wealthy Bibliophile James Lenox gave $300,000 for a public library to house his own superb collection; in 1886 onetime Governor Samuel Tilden left $2,000,000 for "a free library and reading room.'' With another $5,200,000 from Andrew Carnegie for branch libraries, the Astor-Lenox-Tilden benefactions launched the New York Public...
...ASTOR: Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks. Evenings...
...ASTOR: Marlon Brando, when he was about to conclude his first job of directing, called in the cast of ONE-EYED JACKS and asked them to vote on an ending. But it's not only the ending that suffers from an excess of democracy; the whole film is at loose ends--and it has also received more than its share of script-writer's cliche. Interesting as a conversation piece. Evenings...
...ASTOR: One-eyed Jacks, Marlon Brando directs and stars in a Hemingwayesque reworking of traditional Western themes and situations...
...ASTOR: Marlon Brando, when he was about to conclude his first job of directing, called in the cast of ONE-EYED JACKS and asked them to vote on an ending. Though nothing could save this film from being touched by cliche, it is at least interesting as a curiosity piece. Stars Brando and Karl Malden, off the 'chute. Daily...