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...something of a dandy. He loved English suits and was equally adept at wheedling credit out of landladies and getting bright young girls to help him with his writing; eventually he married a 32-year-old Englishwoman, Edna Clarke. In 1935 he played a bit part in an Alexander Korda film, Sanders of the River, with his friend Paul Robeson. He was so deeply affected by the Italian invasion of Ethiopia that he broke through a police line to embrace Haile Selassie when the exiled Emperor arrived at Waterloo Station...
...Welles himself summed up the weekend perfectly, thirty years ago. He was on the set of The Third Man, giving his flawless performance as Harry Lime. The movie's producer, Alexander Korda, was getting on his nerves. Orson reportedly said to him, "I wish the Pope would make you a cardinal, Alex." "Why a cardinal?" Kroda wondered. "Because then," Welles retorted, "we'd only have to kiss your ring...
NONFICTION 1-Bring On the Empty Horses, Niven (1) 2-The Relaxation Response, Benson (2) 3-Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Porter (4) 4-Angels, Graham (5) 5- Power!, Korda (6) 6-Winning Through Intimidation, Ringer (3) 7-Doris Day, Hotchner (9) 8-The Age of Napoleon, Will & Ariel Durant (8) 9-The Russians, Smith 10-The Ascent of Man, Bronowski...
...Power!, Korda...
...fervent hope that when "Hustler" Ringer and "Power" Korda some day turn to a fellow human for aid, they are met only with a "power gaze...