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...Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948 et seq.). In these books Gary shows himself a master of the novelist's true business: creating characters who stick in the memory. No one who has once met that latter-day Moll Flanders, Sara Monday, and that loudmouthed old horsethief and painter, Gulley Jimson, is likely to forget them...
...thug he played so often in the '30s (now, in a fleeting nod to movie progress, labeled a paranoiac), Cagney kills six men, breaks out of a chain gang, pulls off a couple of daring heists, blackmails a bribe-taking cop (Ward Bond) and viciously swats a blonde moll (Barbara Payton) with a rolled-up towel...
...thrilled as a housewife whose husband has just gotten a raise. Then Cagney charms a flighty society heiress (Helena Carter) into eloping with him and, at her father's urging, plans to take charge of her $30 million. In a jealous swivet, the moll begins throwing things like coffee pots and Jeroboams of champagne, finally throws a couple of slugs into her wayward gunman. Long before that point, enough brutality, bravado and dime-novel sex have been ladled into the killer-hero's life to keep this potboiler simmering merrily along...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 p.m., CBS). Moll Flanders, discussed by Novelist Kathleen Winsor and Critic Louis Kronenberger...
...Horse's Mouth, by Joyce Cary. That rare thing, a first-rate comic novel; the final volume of a wise, hilarious trilogy about a modern Moll Flanders, an eccentric country gentleman and a scapegrace painter (TIME...