Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your issue of April 21 contains an interesting but slightly misleading article on Keats's sketch of Haydon now exhibited in the London National Portrait Gallery. The reproduction fails to make clear that the "vile caricature of B. R. Haydon by John Keats" (as Haydon, not Keats, wrote beneath it) is the faintly drawn profile in the background, reproduced herewith [see cut] with the other sketches by Haydon suppressed. . . . This is indeed a "vile caricature...
...Although Professor Pope's claim is persuasive, the National Portrait Gallery in London insists that the phrase "a vile caricature" refers to all four heads in the sketch. TIME must plead with Keats...
...Portrait In Black (by Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts; produced by David Lowe & Edgar F. Luckenbach) quickly lets the audience know that the San Francisco shipping magnate, Matt Talbot, didn't die the natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed...
...Portrait in Black is a well-diagrammed job, with snatches of excitement and stretches of suspense. By all the rules, it should be more of a thrill than it is. One trouble lies in its unmagnetic atmosphere: the play is cold without being clammy, its people are stiff and unhuman without being sinister...
There Was a Time has the color-blind prose and inability to distinguish real emotions from salable affectations that were written all over earlier Caldwell works. But this time, instead of centering around rapacious industrial tycoons, it is a portrait of an artist as a young man. Frank Clair is born in the grimy English city of Leeds (Scottish-English Author Caldwell was born in Manchester); when he is still a boy, his parents bring him to the U.S. city of Bison (Author Caldwell's parents brought her to Buffalo, in whose outskirts she still lives...