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Your new section is an excellent idea, but why omit one of the greatest forces in the entertainment world today-phonograph records...
...indeed interesting. Although you mention Rivera, Picasso and Gris, you omit friendship with Fellow Artist Modigliani. GERARD ZIERLER...
Faye Emerson and Murray Matheson starred in three of the nine one-acters that make up Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30. They did well with Ways and Means, a bedroom comedy complete with burglar. But why did they omit the final line? Without it, the end fell flat. Hands Across the Sea is a plotless bit of mayhem, a three-minute joke extended to thirty. Shadow Play is a confused, stylized soap opera about a marriage on the rocks. It showed that the two stars ought not to sing in public; but it did provide a good final...
...Ernest Hemingway remarked in Death in the Afternoon, "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows . . . The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing." In Hemingway's "refreshing" Paris Review interview [Aug. 11], he remarked, "I always write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything...
...well indeed in the final play, Ways and Means, one of the best of the set. A bedroom comedy, complete with burglar, about a pair of upper-class house guests, out of funds, whose hostess wants to get rid of them, it is consistently funny. But why do they omit the final line? Without it, the end falls flat...