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...RAGE TO LIVE (590 pp.)-John O'Hara-Random House...
Meet the People. That is the whole story of A Rage to Live, John Henry O'Hara's new novel, his first in eleven years. But it is not O'Hara's whole intent. Like his earlier taut and febrile novels (Appointment in Samarra, Butterfield 8), A Rage to Live is shot through with enough gratuitous sex to get itself talked about. But unlike them it attempts the kind of large-scale social portraiture which could easily be the framework of the Great American Novel. Rage is not that. Its wide-lensed look at U.S. small...
When rapture No. 1 comes along, Maureen O'Hara, an impetuous young woman of the 1880s, defies her respectable family to marry an impoverished painter (Dana Andrews with a beard). Soon after he takes her off to live in a picturesque London slum, Dana turns out to be just what mother suspected-a bounder. Fortunately for Maureen, he is also a drunkard. One bright morning-after, he topples off the front stoop and breaks his neck...
...enough money from private practice any more. Few can afford to hold out. Said one fashionable specialist: "Let's not be blind. In a few years, there'll probably be no private practice at all. All you do by not joining the plan is eventually to commit hara-kiri...
...story is about a Tin Pan Alley tunesmith (Melvyn Douglas) who gets caught in some badly directed crossfire between two Manhattan songbirds (Maureen O'Hara and Gloria Grahame). When Maureen suddenly loses her voice, she and Douglas discover Gloria, a seductive salesgirl with a gold-plated larynx. Under their high-pressure salesmanship, Gloria's voice soon belongs to a radio network, a gilded Manhattan nightclub and the admiring U.S. public. But Gloria is not easy to manage. She is finally the victim of a shooting scrape that lands Maureen in the clink and then in a fadeout clinch...