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Married. James Mason, 62, British film actor best known for his portrayals of such tormented characters as the wounded Irish revolutionist in Odd Man Out (1947), Judy Garland's drink-sodden husband in A Star Is Born (1954) and Humbert Humbert in Lolita (1962); and Clarissa Kaye, 39, Australian actress; both for the second time; in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Switzerland...
EVERYBODY KNOWS AND NOBODY CARES by Mason Smith. 213 pages. Knopf...
Hemingway pointed the way: perfection of style was the writer's road to salvation-or at least to survival. If it did not overripen, as style tends to do, it might occasionally reveal what Papa called "the real thing." Mason Smith and Alvin Greenberg, two promising stylists and fledgling novelists, each offer one for the road. Both books have hitchhiking protagonists who abandon cloisters of respectability for the unexpected. But there the similarities...
...Mason Smith's many strengths as a novelist. In tone, texture and pace, Everybody Knows and Nobody Cares is that rarity, a book with no false moves. Smith's hero is Ogden Jones, a Ph.D. candidate in English with a loved and loving wife and three nice children. Discontent with an academic future does not gnaw at him; it nibbles in a stimulating way. So with sleeping bag, fly rod and the warm wishes of wife and kids, he temporarily lights out to what is now the territory behind -the America of high places, crystal air and honeyed...
Grace Without Pressure. Ogden knows it, and so does Mason Smith. In a variation of Nick Adams' trout-fishing scene in Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River, Smith pays tribute to the old man with an exquisite parody of his style. It is done with the same sense of casual gratitude that a young hippie might express when accepting his father's old Army overcoat...