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...feature of this year's sessions of a series of three day public conferences on "broad topics of current interest," Professor William Y. Elliot, Director, announced last night...
...Last Time I Saw Paris (M-G-M). Oscar Wilde presumed that when good Americans die, they go to Paris. Other authors have observed that bad Americans go there to live. Elliot Paul has often gushed in agreement with Wilde; Scott Fitzgerald tended, a little guiltily, to think the opposite. By putting a Paul title to a Fitzgerald story (Babylon Revisited), this picture tries to please everybody...
Some books are destined, not for the ages, but for the nearest hammock. Elliot Paul's Desperate Scenery and Alexandra Orme's Paris Original are light summer fare, earmarked for twin hammocks stamped "His" and "Hers." Author Paul who often as not writes about Paris, this time has written an autobiographical boy-faces-life yarn set in the remote reaches of 1910 Idaho and Wyoming. Authoress Orme's novel is a girl-meets-love story set in the feline, high-fashion world of postwar Paris. Each book lightheartedly holds a slightly askew mirror up to human nature...
Salon info Saloon. Desperate Scenery is as far from Paris Original as a saloon is from a salon. It is the seventh volume in a series called Items on the Grand Account, 63-year-old Elliot Paul's leisurely recital of his life and times. Paul was 19 and bumming through the Far West on close to his last dime in the summer of 1910, when the Jackson Lake Dam, spanning the Snake River in northwest Wyoming, went out. With an engineering brother in the family and some previous surveying experience of his own, Paul found it easy...
...stories Paul tells best, as always, are of the japes and high jinks of Elliot Paul and his pals. To his tales of boozing, floozying and just plain horsing around, Paul contributes an uninhibited tongue, a gift for total and Technicolored recall, and a pleasing tendency to sound like a book-length monologue by W. C. Fields...