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...DANDY: BRUMMELL TO BEERBOHM (372 pp.)-Ellen Moers-Viking...
...Frank Harris would have been a great autobiographer. He shared with the major self-portrait artists-Cellini, Pepys, Boswell and Rousseau-the paradoxical but necessary combination of a surging pride and a vestigial sense of shame. But he had the crippling disqualification that he told the truth, as Max Beerbohm once remarked, only "when his invention flagged...
...Harris rocketed to fame in London, British Author Vincent Brome has recovered a nose cone of truth from the oblivion into which Harris' reputation has fallen. It is a brisk and entertaining book in which Biographer Brome wisely leaves judgment to the men who knew him best-Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw...
...When Beerbohm Tree was first faced with producing this tale of "the boy who would not grow up" in 1904, he attempted to defer the production, feeling certain that Barrie had gone quite mad to have written such an escapist play. The show went on, however, and with overwhelming success. The character of Wendy set a new fashion in children's names: and many youngsters believed in Peter's magic so thoroughly that they broke limbs while attempting to fly like him. (In case you are concerned about the latter, Sir James soon announced that one had to have Peter...
...Method actors mooning over Chekhov and Freud, censored by Actors Equity, censured by critics. Little is heard to compare with the 19th century chores of young Edwin Booth, who led his father, Junius Brutus Booth, staggering from the corner saloon; or Stella Campbell, who turned her back on Sir Beerbohm Tree so often that he ran screaming from the stage. But last week Broadway's most spectacular feline feud in years had the whole street on edge. The clawing started when gifted Actress Kim (Bus Stop) Stanley abruptly announced her departure from Eugene O'Neill...