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...Collier's Friday Night (1909), The Daughter-in-Law (1912) and The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1914) are all set in the kitchens of proud, poverty-blighted Midlands coal-mining families like Lawrence's own; and all are variations on basic Lawrencian themes-the drunken father, the dominance of women, unrelenting intrafamily contests, and the devaluation of intimacy by privation. The plays are pure naturalism: the kitchen sink is never out of sight, and the weary labor of washing off the pit grime when the man comes home occurs in each of them. Yet, unlike the angry Osbornes...
...great films: think of all those people who told Selznick that Gone With The Wind would never sell. Unfortunately, The African Queen falls far short of greatness, selling short its colorful background, despite the efforts of its talented creators (add to the list a fine short story writer, John Collier, whose contribution to the script equalled that of Huston and Agee, and photographer Jack Cardiff, then Carol Reed's right-hand man and cameraman on Hitchcock's magnificent Under Capricorn...
...establishment of middle-class British values on a boat in the jungle must have interested both Agee and Collier as script-writers; the published screenplay in Agee On Film lavishes detail on Cockney inflection and deliberately tortured syntax. Here, Huston's casting defeats the intent: however much Bogart accentuates his buck teeth, he is largely out of place as a Cockney mechanic; his best moments are asides and wisecracks reminiscent of the two Hawks films, The Big Sleep and To Have And Have Not, and he must rely heavily on a stylized comedy technique borrowed wholesale from vintage Cary Grant...
Pressures have risen as the market for freelancers has dwindled. Magazines that used to welcome material-Collier's, Woman's Home Companion, American-have gone out of business. Others, like the Saturday Evening Post, have retrenched, taken on contract writers and discouraged freelancers. The more prosperous publications tend to rely on their own staffs and provide them with the resources to do a more thorough job than freelancers would ordinarily be capable of. A staff writer who leaves a publication to escape editing can often end up being edited more heavily than ever. "When I think...
Along the way, James S. McDonnell (TIME cover, March 31) drove his McDonnell Corp. from a one-room operation into a $1 billion-a-year giant involved in nearly everything that flies. When the National Aeronautic Association awarded "Mr. Mac" its Collier...