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None of the attempts to solve the Drood mystery is an aesthetic or financial success. George Bernard Shaw offers a reason: the novel was "a gesture by a man already three-quarters dead." Novelist J.B. Priestley counters, "Three-quarters dead though he might be, he was feeling his way towards yet another sort of fiction." That fiction is the modern mystery story, with its careful plotting, its characters subordinate to story, and its yielding of surprises as the drama moves toward denouement. To that end, Dickens wrote the only one of his work that can be summarized (although...
...speak of our brother and sister taxpayers." Olivier, who has recently forsaken his own stage career (but not films) after battling a strength sapping muscle disorder, finished his speech by wishing to those who follow, "joy eternal." While the audience, which included Playwrights Eugéne Ionesco and J.B. Priestley, applauded, the trouper then made a low, and justifiably long...
...Priestley, 80, whose acerbic novels of British working-class life go back over half a century, sets his SALT IS LEAVING (Harper & Row; 247 pages; $6.95) in contemporary England. The spice of the title is a wordy, forty-fivish general practitioner anxious to pull out of provincial Birkden as soon as he can track down a vanished patient. Noreen Wilkes is certain to die if she goes without treatment for a rare kidney disease. She has been missing for three weeks when Dr. Salt goes to the police convinced that Miss Wilkes has been murdered. Next, the impeccably respectable...
...soprano who sings nonsense syllables) and A Colour Symphony. He later wrote film scores, notably for the 1939 H.G. Wells' fantasy Things to Come, ballet music (including The Lady of Shalott for the San Francisco Ballet) and an opera, The Olympians, with a libretto by J.B. Priestley. Named court composer in 1953, the musical equivalent of poet laureate, Bliss also composed dozens of pieces for royal occasions from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth to the wedding of Princess Anne...
British Author J.B. (John Boynton) Priestley, 79, who has outlived most of his literary rivals, has just come out with his 99th publication, a book entitled The English, whom many of his admirers think he epitomizes. In London, one of his plays, An Inspector Calls, has been restaged at the Mermaid, and another, Eden End, is slated as a tribute from the National Theater Company in April. Even his native Bradford, which Priestley has written about none too kindly, conferred the freedom of the city on him. As for growing old, Priestley explained what it was like...