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Tonight in Samarkand (by Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple Jr.) takes its theme from the famous Oriental legend-about the inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Appointment in Samarra, with Robert Montgomery, Margaret Hayes...
...hurt easily and those who have a genius for hurting them. His victims and victimizers usually meet in scenes charged with emotional or physical violence, frequently both, and almost always the heel has a field day at the expense of someone better but weaker (Butterfield 8, Appointment in Samarra, scores of tough, tense short stories). Usually O'Hara makes it plain that heels annoy him almost as strongly as he is drawn to them. In his last novel, the bestselling A Rage to Live, he was almost as sympathetic to the betraying wife as he was to the hurt...
Meet the People. That is the whole story of A Rage to Live, John Henry O'Hara's new novel, his first in eleven years. But it is not O'Hara's whole intent. Like his earlier taut and febrile novels (Appointment in Samarra, Butterfield 8), A Rage to Live is shot through with enough gratuitous sex to get itself talked about. But unlike them it attempts the kind of large-scale social portraiture which could easily be the framework of the Great American Novel. Rage is not that. Its wide-lensed look at U.S. small...
Appointment in Samarra. In Ostia, Italy, Dino Alfani, drowsing in peace on the Castel Fusano beach, was run over by a two-seater sport plane and suffered a fractured skull...