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...MADE FRIENDS WITH HIMSELF (275 pp.)-Christopher Morley -Doubleday...
...Nation's Sagittarius (Olga Katzin Miller) has written a dedication in verse ("Hedunit") to the hawk-nosed man in the deerstalker cap who "started a mania for singular cases, started a craving few addicts restrain, started a saga of amateur aces, whimsical, taciturn, dashing, urbane . . ." Holmes Addict Christopher Morley (see BOOKS), who helped found the Baker Street Irregulars in the U.S., contributed a satire on espionage in Washington and the atom bomb. Oldtime (80) shudder man Algernon Blackwood wrote a story of horror in a child's nursery that was reminiscent of The Turn of the Screw. Said...
...readers are always delighted when they find a writer who really acts and talks like one. When Parnassus on Wheels, a quaint little novel about an itinerant bookseller, was published back in 1917, many readers decided that they had found their man. Christopher Morley was clever with a whimsical plot and wrote in the studied, slightly archaic style of another century. The tweedy, pipe-smoke flavor of his looks and books reminded many of the country-squire tradition among English men of letters. With each succeeding Morley work, readers who had cut their teeth on J. M. Barrie...
Ford Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Edward, My Son, with Robert Morley...
Edward, My Son (M-G-M), starring Spencer Tracy, is an ambitious Hollywood effort to cash in on a British play which became a Broadway stage hit. Though it lacks the play's richest ingredient-the polished performance of British Actor and co-Playwright Robert Morley-it still makes a succulent emotional pudding...