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...British Army lieutenant colonel, 41-year-old Christopher Isherwood made his mark in the early '305 as an intellectual leftist and collaborator with...
Poet W. H. Auden on plays (The Dog Beneath the Skin; Ascent of F-6). In 1930 Isherwood went to Berlin, emerged later with his third novel, The Last of Mr. Norris, and a volume of stories, Goodbye to Berlin, that established him as one of Britain's most talented story tellers. In 1939 he landed in Hollywood, where he has divided his time between scriptwriting and translating Hindu religious teachings (BhagavadGita, The Song of God-TIME...
Last week Author Isherwood finished work for Warner Bros, on screen versions of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, and his good friend Somerset Maugham's Up at the Villa. Larry, youthful hero of Maugham's best-selling The Razor's Edge, is.said to be modeled on Isherwood. He is now at work on a novel about physically and spiritually "displaced persons...
...Face of Central Europe. Prater Violet stems straight from Author Isherwood's knowledge of Hollywood, Continental Europe and Britain-in fact, he presents himself as one of Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind...
...youthful Scriptwriter Isherwood-a parlor pink who lives with his adoring mother and brother-Director Bergmann is awe-inspiring. "His head . . . was . . . the head of a Roman emperor, with dark old Asiatic eyes ... big firm chin . . . harsh furrows cutting down from the imperious nose . . . bushy black hair in the nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power...