Word: authors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder Statesman Harry Truman disclosed that he is taking another fling at "the authoring business," has signed up to turn out two new books. The first, Mr. Citizen, to be published next March, will express Truman's general views on today's world. The other, still untitled, but set for publication a year later, will be addressed to U.S. youth (10 to 16), and will set forth what junior citizens should know about U.S. history. Explained Author Truman of the latter project: "I hope to correct what I believe are some serious misconceptions of our past, particularly with...
...Disciple (Hecht-Hill-Lancaster & Brynaprod; United Artists). Its carpingest critic said of this 1897 comedy: "It will assuredly lose its gloss with the lapse of time, and leave itself exposed as the threadbare popular melodrama it technically is." The critic also happened to be the play's author, George Bernard Shaw. Rashly ignoring the warning of a wise old showman, Hollywood has at tempted to put new life into the languid old yarn about shenanigans in Revolutionary War days. The British side (Sir Laurence Olivier) comes off better than the Colonials (Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster...
Whatever the critics think, Actor Laughton is convinced that his is Shakespeare's true Lear. With his wife, Elsa Lanchester, he studied the play in a facsimile of the First Folio all last winter, finally concluded that the author had scored it like music. Voice inflections, pitch, rhythms, everything seemed indicated by what would otherwise be pointless punctuation and irrational typography. "Elsa noticed it first, and I think she was the first to treat it that way. But it works! It works! Shakespeare tells you how to say every word...
...Trapped. Author Warren's revelatory cave is in the Tennessee hill country. Lying near by, as the book opens, are a pair of boots and a guitar. Warren describes them at length, with a simplicity and precision that is somehow ominous-and a little too mannered not to be irritating. Their significance becomes clear when a country boy and his girl, wandering through the woods with their minds on country matters, see the boots and realize that they belong to the boy's brother. The news spreads in the nearby town that Jasper Harrick is trapped...
...because his fat wife is not Jean Harlow, has begun to look upon her with fond normalcy. Jasper's half-illiterate old man, a skirt chaser and Homeric hell raiser in his bachelorhood, experiences a blinding illumination and begins to sound as if he had attended one of Author Warren's courses at Yale. Isaac himself realizes that he is damned to well-paid corruption among the sunless sinners of the communications industry; he never really reached Jasper, invented all the supposed messages from the dying...