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Others in the tight Ibiza circle-a raffish collection reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart's Beat the Devil-added color to the story. There was Elmyr de Hory, the slightly flamboyant art forger who is the principal figure in Irvine's book Fake! Another good friend is Gerry Albertini, an idle millionaire with dual British-American citizenship who, apparently as a favor, once kept Irving's Hughes manuscript in his safe on the island...
...heroic and noble (and shows those Chicago stockyard bosses); Grusha of The Caucasian Chalk Circle triumphs gloriously over those mean Ironshirt heavies. And those who are neither good nor bad but are in morality's mushy middle are at least nice; Baal of Baal is no angel (or devil), but it's tough not to like him. And we can at least understand why Mother Courage keeps at it. Morality is codif lable in Brecht; each of his characters has an assignable moral value, to be seen in relation to other characters with different assignable moral values. Brecht...
Persona, 6:30, 9:45 and Devil by the Tall, 8, Brattle Theater, through Wednesday...
Niven appears to be a totally social animal. In company he is the most amiable of men-quick with his tongue, handy with a glass, a devil with the ladies. During World War II he was also a brave soldier, but you'll never hear about that from Niven. All he reports of his experiences as a commando major during the Normandy landing is that he could hardly hear the guns for the nightingales...
...these routines have already become part of the slang of the '70s. The best known is the refrain with which a black minister's wife explains her every goof, whether it is buying an expensive dress or ramming her car into the side of the church: "The devil made...