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...Lean Indian. The road from Mitchell, S. Dak. to national fame led through Chicago and Paris. In Chicago he attended the Art Institute, worked part time as an apprentice in a local sculptor's studio. The neoclassic splendor of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, with its acres of white buildings and heroic statues, fired Eraser's desire to go to Paris: "It was the most inspiring moment possible for a young artist...
...King and I has plenty of background to draw upon: the splendor of a royal court, the color of a still half-savage country, the flavor of a bygone age, the piquancy of a polygamous household. And the clash between a potentate Oriental enough to think women a mere plural for whim and a woman British enough not to lower her eyes or her colors before royalty makes for good dramatic comedy...
...Faolain, has savagely refused to accept the fact that the cities of Italy "are not museums." Burgeoning with the exuberance that makes every Italian "a great, bursting bag of life," these cities have from time immemorial massacred their own beauties, thrown out long sprays of indiscriminate architectural splendor and ugliness-"gems set in pig-iron...
...apology for doing what most any other author is far too ready to do: rest on his financial oars by bringing out. "a collection of my short stories, plays, and miscellaneous essays." And yet, if there is nothing in Occupation: Writer that shows Robert Graves in the full splendor of his poetry, or even at his first-rate, second-best (as in some of his novels, mythological studies and essays on poetry) there is still more here in the way of humor, erudition and intellectual enthusiasm than most writers ever achieve at their best...
Visually, it was all worthwhile. Beautifully photographed in black & white, the film is encrusted with atmosphere: tapestried, frescoed splendor of vaulted palaces and chapels, lush, brocaded period costumes, sweating dungeons and stately formal gardens, misty canals, soaring mountain fortresses and the cloud-hung, peak-strewn landscapes of central Italy...