Word: woolf
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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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...
...elder J. P. Morgan made Fry curator of paintings and buyer for Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Critic Fry appreciated neither the good qualities of the U. S. landscape ("One expects a new continent to be more original") nor those of Mr. Morgan, whom Biographer Woolf describes as a man of prodigious vanity and colossal ignorance. Mr. Morgan's power over the Museum-a "worse than Turkish rule"-soon led to Roger Fry's dismissal...
Best reading in Mrs. Woolf's 301 pages is Critic Fry's account-however colored by his own self-esteeming captiousness-of a picture-buying trip in Italy with...