Word: geralds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Exile of Prades." This piece ended with a quote from Casals, ". . .someone must remember," and I was made to remember. I quickly wrote a treatment for a documentary feature film on Casals, but it never came off. In the course of promoting it, I was brought into contact with Gerald Warburg. Four years later, Mr. Warburg "remembered," and said that if we weren't able to have a feature film of Casals we should at least have a modest record of his performance for posterity. I agreed, of course, and he prevailed with the Eda K. Loeb Fund, through...
...Gerald Kelly, 78, painter and past president of Britain's Royal Academy, is a salty soul who once sat before the microphones of the BBC and described a Rembrandt self-portrait as "a bloody work of genius" and abstract art as "a kind of measles." Last week Sir Gerald pulled off a bloody triumph of his own. Up on the walls of the Royal Academy's galleries were 291 of his works in a special one-man exhibition, the fourth in the academy's history to be given a living artist. Included was a large...
...long banned Sphinx, now owned by Mrs. Alfred G. Kay of Palm Beach, Fla., was visibly stronger in flesh tones than mystery (see cut). Recalled Sir Gerald: "I put a devil of a lot of hard work into that picture. It took me four years, on and off, to paint. The model who posed for it would not have been everyone's cup of tea. She had a stocky figure, long-limbed and healthy looking, but no grace or elegance. It was an arduous pose, and she behaved like an archangel though she ached like the devil afterwards...
When The Sphinx was finished, Sir Gerald showed it to Sir William Llewellyn, then Royal Academy president, heard him say, "By Jove, my dear chap, it's wonderful. You really must send it in." Comments Sir Gerald wryly: "Well, I sent it in, but it jolly soon came back." Reason was the academy's unwritten law prohibiting any work that might cause offense or annoyance to the viewer's religious or moral scruples. The academy's particular concern was that Queen Mary, peering at The Sphinx strait-lacedly, might deem it beyond the pale of propriety...
...career can be spotted in several existing New York publishing firms. Similarly, Tony Thompson-the passionate editor with a winetaster's nose for genius and a mixed-up love life-recalls bits and pieces of several real-life editors' personal histories. The same goes for Gerald Primrose, who has inherited Primrose Press, but who is in no sense much of a man and knows very well that publishing is not his game. The plot concerns a young novelist who has concocted a piece of what Gerald calls "illiterate trash," which somehow brings tragedy to the three publishing types...