Word: monologuists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This passionate effusion was punctuated by the constant, brittle click of a camera. The ecstatic monologuist was Vogue's talented photographer Irving Penn and the woman in white was his model. Well might Penn be ecstatic. In that strange, floodlit world whose heaven is Paris and whose economic life force is the American woman's checkbook, his model was a reigning queen. She was Lisa Fonssagrives, the highest-paid, highest-praised high-fashion model in the business, considered by many of her colleagues the greatest fashion model of all time. Says Photographer Horst Paul Horst, who helped...
...book jacket emphasizes that Miss Howe was not originally a novelist, but a monologuist, spending her salad days barnstorming around the country before beginning as a writer. With two books under her belt, Miss Howe is presumably deemed a novelist. Actually, she has remained a monologuist. "We Happy Few" is not a novel, really, but a series of vignettes, all of which black out with a punch line. Many of these are very funny, and Miss Howe's satire bites deep, but wisecracks do not a novel make...
Each Fridolinons is rich in chorines, costumes, tunes. But what draws the crowd is Author-Producer-Monologuist Fridolin himself. The grubby get-up expresses one side of Fridolin's appeal-the wistful urchin, the Chaplinesque underdog who fights for causes that can never succeed, and makes love to girls he can never win. The slingshot expresses the other half of his appeal - the impudent nose-thumber who (at Bob Hope speed) lets fly at bingo, dance bands, radio advertising, women in war plants - and the Mackenzie King Government...
...fill out his vaudeville act. Afterward the pair started hoofing through the hinterland. In a shabby theater in New Castle, Ind. came the turning point of Hope's career. He was asked to announce the next week's vaudeville bill, gagged the assignment to furious applause, turned monologuist on the spot. As a "single" with a flip, fast delivery, he landed a one-week job in a Chicago variety theater, stayed six months. From then on "one triumph led to another and I soon found myself only $4,000 in debt." By 1930 he had reached...
...also a disappointment. For Miss Howe, a ranking monologuist, brings into fiction both the virtues and the faults of her art. She has a fine ear for the devilish ironies and self-betrayals of normal speech (or writing), and her whole book is nervous and vivid with them. But she has also the monologuist's weakness for overemphasis, for sacrificing psychological integrity in favor of a laugh or a sniff. Even so, The Whole Heart is an impressive, realistic piece of work...