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...MISTER JOHNSON (261 pp.)-Joyce Cary-Harper...
English Novelist Joyce Cary has made a solid, belated U.S. reputation with some of the finest comic novels (e.g., The Horse's Mouth, Herself Surprised) in several decades. All of them have English settings. But Gary's own favorite among his books is Mister Johnson, a novel about an imaginative, teen-age native clerk in Nigeria who rollicks through life as if it were improvised African free verse...
...Cuff. Cary knows what he is writing about. During World War I he fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...
...exposes hypocrisy, insincerity, anything that's faked and dishonest. That television screen in the living room tells you more about a man's insides than the X-ray machine in a doctor's office. When you've been tested in television's tube, mister...
...most rewardingly well-preserved sights in Hollywood. But what makes Half Angel especially disappointing is that it was written by Scripter Robert Riskin, whose horseplay with half-baked abnormal psychology is a sad comedown from such past comic successes as It Happened One Night and Mister...