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Portrait of Max, by S. N. Behrman. A fond, endearing portrait of Sir Max Beerbohm, whom the author met in Rapallo during the sixth decade of that sempiternal Edwardian's self-declared...
...gods have bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age," quipped Oscar Wilde when Max Beerbohm was all of 25. It is difficult to know precisely when Max's old age began. Perhaps, since he "detested change of any kind," it began at birth. He was the ninth and last child of a late-fiftyish father; a faintly melancholy, autumn mood came as first nature to Max. Then again, his old age may have begun at 23 when his first book, archly titled The Works of Max Beerbohm, was published, and he announced (prematurely) his retirement from...
...demanding fans, and even some of its own writers, sigh that the magazine has become afflicted with middle-aged spread. Profiles that once ran in two parts now run in three, and in the case of S. N. Behrman's recent seven-part profile on Max Beerbohm, a good-sized short story might have been told in the space it took Behrman just to arrive at his first meeting with Beerbohm, outside Rapallo. William Shawn, Ross's successor as editor, once told a friend over a drink: "The stories just seem to get longer...
...Dandy, by Ellen Moers. The impulse to pluperfection in male attire, scarcely visible in the age of the sack suit and Truman shirt, ran high from Beau Brummell's time to Max Beerbohm's, and the author charts it with sober care...
...Dandy, by Ellen Moers. The impulse to pluperfection in male attire, scarcely visible in the age of the sack suit and Truman shirt, ran high from Beau Brummell's time to Max Beerbohm's, and the author charts it with sober care...