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...time out to puff away at his pipe and look at the record. Although he says of his course, "We do not write to sell, and I think a lot of the best stuff has not sold at all," the record has an exceedingly successful ring to it: ¶ Pupil John Mayo Goss's check from the Atlantic was for a short story, Bird Song; the 50-year-old ex-adman's story was the 25th to be sold by a Strode student...
...Quito, has been released from prison, where he went for slashing off his wife's ear. (For one thing, she had let dirt fall on a painting he had finished and left to dry.) As penance, the artist is going to paint a religious picture. He binds a pupil to the cross, but the expression the master wants is not quite right until he thrusts a lance through the model's body. Santiago's Christ of the Agony is offered in evidence at his trial for murder, and the judges decide that the painting outweighs the crime...
...write it out, Georgie, such black ink," he says, examining in uncomprehending wonder George's first musical manuscript.) Herbert Rudley and Albert Basserman underplay with moving simplicity the difficult roles of a retiring, satellite brother and a music teacher distrustful of Mammon's claims on his favorite pupil. Oscar Levant, as himself, needs no acting skill to project his practiced cockiness, but respect for his late friend in real life has given his comic relief performance an unexpected depth...
...however inappropriate to the role, were practically all that made the play shine. Moreover, Miss Davis is not old enough, as Miss Barrymore was, to keep every hint of boy-meets-girl out of the teacher's moving relationship with the uncouth young miner who is her star pupil. Newcomer John Dall, as the miner, cares a lot for his role, but he is too urban and smooth to convey much power through it, once he gets the coal dust off his face. Another newcomer, Joan Lorring, as a hysterical little cockney slut who gets herself and the young...
...sophisticate of the 1920s, studied privately with the swami. His latest novel, Time Must Have a Stop, bears the marks of his study. Erudite Philosopher Gerald Heard (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity), son of an Anglican churchman and a professed agnostic since youth, was another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta and the West, now co-edited by Isherwood. Larry, the dissatisfied young hero of Somerset Maugham's current best-selling novel, The Razor's Edge...