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...brought out a facsimile edition of the original Waste Land. Complete with notes, a color key to distinguish Pound's editing from Eliot's, progressive handwritten and typed versions of the text, it clearly shows what Eliot, Pound, and even Eliot's unstable first wife Vivien contributed...
...keeps a dream diary and simply asserts that on several occasions in dreams he has witnessed events-including a specific ship sinking in the Irish Sea-which, he later learned, occurred at the moment he was dreaming them. He barely mentions his marriage to a Catholic girl named Vivien Dayrell-Browning, except as the events affected his need to find both work and religion. Greene's conversion to Catholicism began at age 22. In discussing it he is the soul of brevity. To begin with, he did not believe in God at all. He took instruction from a former...
Victorious But Frustrated. Directed by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, the Royal Shakespeare Company's production is impeccable. Vivien Merchant (Mrs. Harold Pinter), who is to Pinter's plays what Clara Schumann was to her husband's music, plays the woman with a mixture of hauteur and girlish romanticism. She makes the character both menacing and slightly spurious. Colin Blakely is blessedly funny and touching as the bluff husband whose male pride is aroused but baffled. He is apparently victorious but eventually frustrated. In the role of the mysterious wife, Dorothy Tutin catches the unconscious...
...taken in hand by her half brother, Rodolfo Crespi (married to Consuelo Crespi of the best-dressed set). Rudi pushed lipstick, Consuelo set aside some best dresses, and at 18, Luciana was shuttled from Rome to London to have her nose fixed (the working model was a cross between Vivien Leigh's and Consuelo's). Six months later, she changed her name as well by marrying Prince Nicoló Pignatelli Aragona Cortes; the union was "a disaster" from which she emerged, 15 years later, with two children, one title and "a shattered...
...Vivien Leigh, Lotte Lenya, Warren Beatty and Jill St. John in the film version of Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone...