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Speaking of What? An unreconstructed individualist, Still was born in Grandin, N. Dak. in 1904, grew up on a farm, got an M.A. from the State College of Washington, where he taught art for eight years. As a teacher in the California School of Fine Arts (1946-50), he was responsible, along with Mark Rothko, for developing a generation of painters now making their marks in Manhattan, Paris, Rome. Of his own development, he says: "Each man has to find his own way. Painting forces ideas. A man has to struggle to stand, to go beyond all the extraneous material...
Given more clearly-defined roles, Eustacia Grandin, Robert Beaty, and William Morris Hunt turn in three excellent performances. Miss Grandin is captivatingly acidulous as Celimene, the coquettish object of Alceste's affections, and certainly makes the most of her own talents and adroit direction in bringing out everything the role has to offer. The good-hearted cynicism of Philinte comes across delightfully in Beatey's highly amusing performances, and Hunt handles the confident pomposity of Oronte with his usual competent vigor...
...John Grandin is an even more sympathetic figure than the Don Birnam of Lost Weekend fame. For Birnam, there was hope-and Alcoholics Anonymous. For Grandin, nothing. I have traveled extensively and have met many souls kindred to John Grandin. For them, there is nought but continual suffering -unless they choose to become the recipients of the total disgust of their fellowmen...
...John Grandin is a pathetic figure and may God bless Charles Jackson for bringing him and his predicament into the limelight...
...Grandin and his wife have been married ten years and have two children. He is aware-but not half so aware as she is-that he has given his wife only perfunctory attention for some time, preoccupied as he is with his work as a teacher and scholarly writer. They look forward to their vacation with quite different intentions: he to make up for his neglect, she to force a showdown about it. The showdown takes a form neither had expected when Grandin falls in love with a handsome Marine captain...