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Thursday, Oct. 16--Holmes Hall and Eliot Hall
It began last winter when Diplomat Julius Holmes stopped in Morocco on a special assignment in Africa. As onetime U.S. representative in Tangier, Holmes had a special affection for Morocco; as an alumnus of St. Paul's, he felt a sentimental tie to his old school. So he decided...
All this is familiar jungle rot, but Scriptwriter Milton Holmes has supplied some measure of balm. He gives Hero Todd a sturdy slug of cussedness with which to wash down the. standard mixture of courage and nobility. And beneath his heroine's wayward bust beats no bromidic heart of...
Died. Burton Holmes, 88, lecturer, globetrotter, film maker, autobiographer (The World Is Mine), who in 1904 coined the word travelogue; in Hollywood. Son of a Chicago grain broker, Holmes became a world traveler in his teens, spent 55 summers abroad, circled Sputnik-like around the world, gave more than 8...
Author Holmes knows his jazz world. One of his scenes - a band rehearsal - is as funny and true as any writing about jazz in a long while. The Horn is sententious and overwritten, but it still manages to be a plausible and moving novel.