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...columnist act was born last year in the mind of Hollywood Agent Leo Morrison, who proposed it to Lolly, the logical choice. After her husband, Dr. Harry ("my favorite doctor") Martin, approved, Morrison hired Cinemauthor Edgar Allan Woolf to cook up a skit. First problem was to get actors, but that was no trouble for Columnist Lolly, whose more than 400 daily outlets and strong Hearst connections are a potent argument in any studio discussion. Before long she had lined up Starlets Jane Wyman, Arleen Whelan, Susan Hayward, June Preisser, Warners' bit player Ronald Reagan for male contrast...
Last fortnight another friend, Novelist Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse, Orlando), laid out Critic Fry for all to see in a stately biography, Roger Fry (Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), as solemn as a satin-lined coffin...
...Woolf's work obscure rather than clarify the question: Why write a book about a critic? Yet Roger Fry's achievements were genuinely great. Hampered by a stodgy Quaker background and upbringing, burdened with a great personal tragedy (his wife early became insane), he was not a successful painter, had a hard time learning how to write and lecture for a living. When he hoped for the directorship of the National Gallery he was passed over; he was made Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge only in the last year of his life. But Roger Fry made more...
...Jack Flinchum saw ahead of him was even more exciting: two days before he was presented with five pounds of lead weights (tied with a festive blue ribbon) to symbolize his metamorphosis from a bug rider to a full-fledged jockey, he was signed up by rich Sportsman Herbert Woolf (at a reputed salary of $20,000 a year plus 10% of winning purses). In the Kentucky Derby, Peewee Flinchum will probably ride Woolf's Prompt Pay, by the same sire as Lawrin (1938 Derby winner). His following hoped he would have better luck in the Derby than...
...writers can handle an early 18th-Century English subject with a grace and sang-froid that would have passed muster in that brilliant age. Peter Quennell (pronounced Kweneir) is (with Virginia Woolf, Edith Sitwell, Lord David Cecil) one of the few. An Oxonian of ascetic good looks and elegant manners, Quennell was turned loose six years ago on a great collection of Byron's letters owned by Publisher John Murray. His Byron: The Years of Fame was the sprightly result; his preoccupation with the 18th Century followed. In the spirit of the age, Quennell has rapidly taken three wives...