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MOVIOLA by Garson Kanin Simon & Schuster; 446 pages...
...Garson Kanin, playwright (Born Yesterday), novelist (The Rat Race) and Hollywood memoirist, is wooden in his overall structure but energetic in his scenes. The Fatty Arbuckle party that led to his sex scandal, trial, ruin and censorship; Greta Garbo's slow but sure rise to stardom amid the "ah-rintch" groves, and the pandemoniac search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara. Much space is devoted to a novelization of the rise and fall of Marilyn Monroe. Farber's conclusion: Hollywood did not kill her; "it was just a case of bad luck, mismanagement...
Recent polls report that 28 to 38 per cent of Democratic voters are undecided about the five-candidate Senate race. The large number of undecided voters is apparently due to extreme voter apathy and alienation, Dennis Kanin '68, manager of Rep. Paul Tsongas' (D.-Mass.) campaign said yesterday. "It's hard to tell what will happen," Lou Dinatale, Campaign manager for State Secretary Paul Guzzi '64, said yesterday...
Despite the candidate's efforts, voter turnout is predicted to be low. "There doesn't seem to be as much interest in political races as in past years," Kanin said...
...Garson Kanin, 65, playwright, Hollywood and Broadway director, has a new credit. His latest novel consists of 27 years' worth of work-journal entries. The notes are on a fictive California stage actor named John J. Tumulty, dead ten years when the research starts in 1940. The diarist (coyly named Garson Kanin) tries to create a screenplay from the biographical data. But as Kanin turns and sifts his evidence, mysteries rise from "facts." Conflicting testimony comes from people who knew Tumulty (who bears a resemblance to John Barrymore), among them B.D. (Big Director), the actor's adopted...