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...plays be cinematized (see p. 46). And he found himself set to music. Until pictures could talk, a Shavian film was obviously impossible. Almost as strange as a silent Shaw picture would be a Shaw opera. That, however, had not been attempted by the young German composer, Karl Friedrich Grimm, who mounted Shaw's steps last week, score in hand. He had merely written a prelude to Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra. Shaw listened, pondered, approved...
Whether or not Composer Grimm knew it, Pundit Shaw is not without musical experience. He is at home with no instrument more musical than a typewriter, can barely carry a tune, but he once earned his living writing about music for his fellow-Irishman, the late famed Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor. Explains Shaw: "He made me musical critic quite frankly and explicitly ... to prevent my writing about anything else than music. My other writings were ruining his paper [The Star...
...Mickey Cochrane (Athletics) work in vaudeville. Bill Terry (Giants) who once had a filling station, sells oil in Memphis and sings in a choir. Ray Kremer (Pirates) works in the California oil fields. Dazzy Vance (Robins) used to sell real estate, made money during the Florida boom. Bowlegged Charlie Grimm (Cubs) paints por- traits, plays a $450 banjo, also the zither the xylophone. . . . All of them have something they like to do in the fall and winter-their time for big meals, things to drink, late sleeping, being with the family, making a little money on the side...
...just as great a success. Recapture got them all excited because its author is Preston Sturges, whose Strictly Dishonorable (TIME, Sept. 30) is still a smash hit. In Strictly Dishonorable Playwright Sturges exhibits a talent for writing risque themes and a romanticism as all-pervading as that of Grimm and Hans Andersen. But he is not yet a playwright of stature. He can crack a smart joke, can treat sex with refinement; can also devise such ill-assembled, trivial drama as Recapture, which deals with the efforts of an ex-wife (Ann Andrews) and ex-husband (Melvyn Douglas) to regain...
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