National Review (Random Notes)
National Review
(Random Notes)
A fueilleton entitled "Random Notes" appeared in the National Review between April 1962 and January 1965. GD told me it comprised 55 pieces. I've found the following 52: 1962
18 pieces
12:14 (April 10, 1962) 256
- A. A. Hoehling, Who Destroyed the Hindenburg?
- Gene Smith, The Life and Death of Serge Rubinstein
- Marcel Aymé, The Conscience of Love
- Igor Stravinsky, Expositions and Developments
12:16 (April 24, 1962) 293
- Sodom and Gomorrah (Dimitri Tiomkin's film score)
- Will Geer impersonation of Walt Whitman (off Broadway)
- Albert Finney (in the NY production of John Osborne's play, Luther)
- Jessamyn West, The Quaker Reader
- Alan Valentine, America Between Two Worlds
12:18 (May 8, 1962) 331
- Joyce's Ulysses (film version, Jack Cardiff, director)
- Kafka's The Trial (Orson Welles, director)
- Ethel King, Reflections of Reedy [and of the newspaper Reedy's Mirror ]
- Dorothy Gardiner [et al.] Raymond Chandler Speaking
- Henri Perruchot. Cézanne [vol. 2 of trilogy]
- Marianne Moore stage adaptation of Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee
- Wyndham Lewis Letters
- Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
12:20 (May 22, 1962) 37
- Fritz Lang, The Cabinet of Caligari, transformed from Nickelodeon to Talkie
- Heimweh nach dem Kurfuerstendamm
- PT 109 (film)
- The Enemy Within (film)
- The Jungle Book (film by Disney)
- August Hecksher, The Public Happiness
- Allen Drury, A Shade of Difference
- Djuna Barnes, Selected Works [hodge podge - omits Ryder novel sequeled by Nightwood ]
- Geoffrey Dutton, book on Walt Whitman in UK series (Evergreen Pilot Books)
- The Pavlov Journal of Higher Nervous Activity , v. 11 (Moscow)
12:24 (June 19, 1962) 447
- The Fall of the Roman Empire -- film
- The Last days of Herculanum [sic] -- film
- The Old Testament -- film
- Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools -- film
- William Faulkner, Light in August -- film
- Ray Bradbury and Francois Truffaut, [collaboration on film version of Bradbury stories]
- Merlin Ennis, Umbundu: Folk Tales from Angola
- A Working Friendship [correspondence of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal]
- Arthur Golding's Metamorphoses [of Ovid, W. H. D. Rouse edition]
- John Middleton Murray's Keats in paperback
12:26 (July 3, 1962) 489
- Cleopatra [film with R. Burton and E. Taylor]
- Joyce's Ulysses [film version, directed by Jack Cardiff)
- Louis Gottschalk Notes of a Pianist (Dover reissue)
- Edgar Rice Burroughs (sci-fi reissued by Canaveral Press and Dover Press)
- Irving Wallace, The Square Pegs
- T. R. Fyvel Troublemakers (Shocken)
13:2 (July 17, 1962) 30
- Igor Stravinsky's return to his native Russia
- Actress playing 'Lolita' in the film Lolita is "old enough to vote"
- C. S. Lewis tetralogy:
- Out of the Silent Planet
- Perelandra
- That Hideous Strength
- The Abolition of Man
- The Girl Hunters
- The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse
- The Penguin Book of Latin Verse
- book about Paul Klee by his son Felix
- Bernard DeVoto, ed. Letters Form the Earth (Mark Twain)
- William Golding, The Inheritors
- Van Wyck Brooks, Fenollosa and His Circle
- Richard M. Kain, Dublin in the Age of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce
13:4 (July 31, 1962) 70
- Brendan Behan in the film, The Hostage
- Jerry Wald's film Ulysses
- David Lean's film Lawrence of Arabia
- John Huston's film Freud
- Walker Evans photographs reissued by MOMA , intro by Lincoln Kirstein
- Wylie Syper, Loss of the Self in Art and Literature
- Edward Gorey, The Willowdale Handcar
- Three Essays on the Esthetics of Music (Debussy, Busoni, Ives)
- Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland
- McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader
- Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
- Walter Ong, Ramus: Method and the Decay of Dialogue
- Hugh Kenner, The Stoic Comedians
13:6 (August 14, 1962) 104
- D. W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation
- Buster Keaton, The General
- Jack Gelber, The Connection
- Amos Tutuola, The Palm-wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-wine Tapster in the Dead's Town
- Marvin K. Singleton, H. L. Mencken and the 'American Mercury' Adventure
- Library of Congress 'Fifty Years of American Poetry' "but someone will have to face the fact that the two greatest American poets, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, are in exile, self-predilected."
13:8 (August 28, 1962) 150
- T. S. Eliot, Experience and the Objects of Knowledge in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley
- Edward Wagenknecht, The Movies in the Age of Innocence
- Alain Resnais, Muriel
- Comment on one publisher's objection to re-publishing works of the Founding Fathers
13:10 (September 11, 1962) 195
- Peter Ustinov, Billy Budd
- Samuel Beckett, Act Without Words (with Gene Kelly)
- note on International Publishers Marxist titles series
- Thoreau's 'notebooks' out-of-print for 45 years now; Benton's Thirty Years View, 107 years.
- Mother and Son: The Wartime Correspondence of Isoko and Ichiro Hatano
- Michael Hamburger and Christopher Middleton, Modern German Poetry
- John W. Rockefeller, Jr., The Poor Rockefellers
13:12 (September 25, 1962) 233
- Rewards -- comment on stipulations for the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Rewards -- comment on Caedmon Records project to record all of Shakespeare
- Mark Twain Estate finally permitted publication of his Letters From Earth
- Vale: Grand Opera House, Evansville, IN -- where 'Sweet Adeline' first sung-- to be razed
- USA offering Lolita ; UK Term of Trial (with Sir L. Olivier) at the Venice Film Fest
- Ray Bradbury, The Anthem Sprinters [five plays]
13:14 (October 9, 1962) 277
- Movies -- Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot to be filmed (with Peter O'Toole)
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last Year at Marienbad) [wrote screen play for this film which was directed by Alain Resnais] has taken up film-making. Has completed The Immortal .
- Turns out one of actors considered for part of Bloom in the late Jerry Wald's -- now shelved film project of Joyce's Ulysses -- was Peter Sellers.
- Russell Kirk, Old House of Fear (suspense thriller)
- Russell Kirk, Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in Conservative Thought (UMI, Anrn Arbor)
- Correspondence between Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller to be published (Dutton) -- GD mentions HM's The Colossus of Maroussi as a quality example of travel writing.
13:16 (October 23, 1962) 324
- Mickey Spillane as Mike Hammer in film version of The Girl Hunters
- Caedmon Records -- Dylan Thomas reading from The Duchess of Malfi and King Lear
- Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- first play, titlel of which taken from a subway scrawl reported by The New Yorker
- Noel Stock and Ezra Pound, Love Poems of Ancient Egypt
- D. D. Paige, The Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941
- Alice Babette Toklas, What Is Remembered
- J. M Synge, The Aran Islands
- Peter Matthiessen, Under the Mountain Wall
- H. Melville, last novel Billy Budd, Foretopman -- new edition by Harrison Hayward and Merton Sealts, eds., Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative (U. Chicago Pr)
- John Aubrey, Aubrey's Brief Lives (Ann Arbor)
13:18 (November 6, 1962) 359
- Adaptation of Aristophanes, Lysistrata by George St. George and Rudolph Mate "which the French are so fond of putting into modern dress for the movies"
- Russell Kirk, Surly Sullen Bell
- Lilliam Ross' New Yorker piece (as a book) about the filming of The Red Badge of Courage.
- Grandma Moses illustrations to Clement C. Moore's Night Before Christmas
- Conrad Aiken, Ushant [autobiography]
- Charles Addams, Drawn and Quartered [re-print of CA's first book of cartoons]
13:20 (November 20, 1962) 399
- Eric von Stroheim, Greed (1924) -- original 9-hr version; June Mathis, 2-hr version. "Greed is a film version of Frank Norris' McTeague . . ."
- Jules Dassin, Phaedra
- Hamlet musical by Ray Russell with title 'Come to Me, My Melancholy Dane'
- Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt (new vol of poems)
- Frank Meyer, In Defense of Freedom
- Frank Meyer, The Moulding of Communists
- Robert Hutchinson, The Humorous World of Jerome K. Jerome (Dover) -- "When Turgenev visited England Henry James offered to introduce him to any of the great he wished to meet. Turgenev asked above all to meet Jerome K. Jerome, . . . author of Three Men on a Bummel and Three Men in a Boat . . ."
- F. R. Leavis, ed., Scrutiny [British journal of literary criticism, 1932-1953] to be repubished
- Symposium on George Bernard Shaw: Shaw, the Villager and Human Being
- Gregory Corso, Long Live Man
13:22 (December 4, 1962) 446
- Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (book)
- Thomas Molnar, The Two Faces of American Foreign Policy
- Edward Gorey drawings in John Ciardi, You Read to Me; I'll Read to You
- Alexander von Humbolt, [travels] Stars, Mosquitoes, and Crocodiles
- Florence Becker Lennon, Victoria Through the Looking-Glass (1945) reissued as The Life of Lewis Carroll
- Albert Simeon, Man's Presumptive Brain
- Ernest Thompson Seton, Wild Animals I Have Known
- With Music Ring [film documentary of Mormon Tabernacle Choir]
- Samuel Bronston, The Fall of The Roman Empire
- Sodom and Gomorrah [film] -- ". . . advertising is to be aimed at teenagers and readers of Stag, Cavalier, Gent, Male, and Climax."
- Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind and A Program For Conservatives (paperback reissues)
- Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin and Rinehart in Love and now Custer's Last Stand
13:24 (December 18, 1962) 479
- Taras Bulba [film]
- Bird Man of Alcatraz [film]
- The Birds [film]
- The Caretakers [film]
- Call Me Bwana [film]
- The Greatest Story Ever Told [film]
- Candide [French film]
- Incidental -- "Princeton Theological Seminary placed an order with Grove Press for ten copies of Samuel Becket, Waiting For God to Do It . . ."
- Theodore Weiss, Gunsight -- " . . . new book of poems was reviewed by Sewanee Review as Gunsmoke. Paperback Books in Print lists it as Gunfight. And the press has received one order for Gunshot."
- Ralph Schroeder monograph on Vachel Lindsay, Where a Lad Is
- Ludwig Bemelmans, The Street Where the Heart Lies
- James Thurber, Credos and Curios
- Ernest Hemingway, The Wild Years
- Carvel Collins, ed., William Faulkner: Early Prose [incl drawings "school of John Held, Jr."]
- Max Beerbohm, The Incomparable Max
- Paul Wiley, Ford Madox Ford : Novelist of Three Worlds
1963
20 pieces
14:2 (January 15, 1963) 32
- Award -- Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize given to Ezra Pound. "The award could have gone to any contributor since 1912. Pound, who lives in Italy, sometimes at his daughter's castle near Merano, sometimes at his old haunts in Rapallo, has recovered from his operation of last August and was recently reported seen afoot in Venice where he wrote his first book of poems in 1908."
- Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night (film)
- Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust (to be filmed)
- Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, Threepenny Opera -- in its 4th year of film production
- G. W. Pabst, Threepenny Opera (1920 print has been found)
- Brecht has made an opera, a novel, and a film of the Threepenny Opera
- A new 'Lulu' to be a Brechtian adaptation by Hans Pavel and Heinar Kipphardt of two Benjamin Franklin Wedekind plays: Der Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora
- Children's books (Macmillan series) by writers "not usually found at such labors":
- Jean Stafford, The Lion and the Carpenter and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights
- Randall Jarrell, tr. of Ludwig Bechstein, The Rabbit Catcher
- Randall Harrell, tr. of brothers Grimm's The Golden Bird and Other fairy tales
- John Updike, intro. to Oscar Wilde, The Young King
- Elizabeth Bowen, intro. to John Ruskin, King of the Golden River
- Isak Dinesen, intro to Hans Christian Andersen, Thumbelina
14:4 (January 29, 1963) 77
- Movies:
- Cleopatra
- The V. I. P.'s
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
- 1962 Lamont Poetry Prize awarded to Edward Field for his Stand Up, Friend, With Me
- Bollingen Prize for translations awarded to Richmond Lattimore for his Frogs of Aristophanes and to Robert Lowell for his book of translations, Imitations
- William Schlamm, Die Ungen Herren der Alten Erde: von Neuen Stil der Macht
- John Updike, The Centaur
- J. D. Salinger, Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters
- Carl Bode, commissioned to write biography of H. L. Mencken
- James Sledd and William R. Ebbitt, casebook on Webster's Third Internation and its reviewers, Dictionaries and That Dictionary.
14:6 (February 12, 1963) 122
- Movies:
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? to be followed by Dead Pigeon -- "on the grand old Hollywood principle that you can't have too much of a good thing".
- Henri-Georges Clouzot, Du fond de la nuit
- Orson Welles, looking to film Joseph Heller, Catch-22
- John Huston to undertake Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, and Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King
- Television: "King Features will have ready for showing in September 150 animated cartoons: 50 Beetle Baileys, 50 Barney Googles and Snuffy Smiths, and 50 Krazy Kats. The latter genius is unknown to current Kinder (no cartoonist could master the drawing of George Herriman and the strip died with him) . . ."
- Stanley Weintraub, Private Shaw and Public Shaw -- "chronicles the friendship of T. E. Lawrence and Bernard Shaw, Lawrence borrowed Shaw's name when he became a private in the RAF to elude the fame of being Lawrence of Arabia; hence the title. The friendship lasted from the writing of Seven Pillars of Wisdom -- all the semicolons in which are the work of Bernard Shaw --- to Lawrence's death in 1935 . . ."
- John Buchan [4 novels]:
- Castle Gay
- Greenmantle,
- The House of the Four Winds
- John MacNab
- Twayne United States Authors:
- Edwin Cady, Stephen Crane
- Frederick Carpenter, Robinson Jeffers
- Joe Lee Davis, James Branch Cabell
- Warren French, Frank Norris
- 1800 Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick and His School (Dover books)
- Oskar Kokoschka, Sea Ringed with Visions (memoirs)
14:8 (February 26, 1963) 164
- Movies:
- Sir Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire
- Cleopatra (still in production)
- Jean Giradoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot and Leonardo da Vinci
- Harold Pinter, The Servant
- My Fair Lady
- Books:
- The Struggles of Petroleum V. Nasby
- Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift
- Cecily Macworth, Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cubist Life
- E. P. to L. U. : Letters of Ezra Pound to Louis Untermeyer
- Hugh Kenner, ed. The Translations of Ezra Pound
- Harry Levin, The Gates of Horn: A Study of Five French Realists
- Reuben Brower, The Poetry of Robert Frost
14:12 (March 26,1963) 240
- Movies:
- Lawrence of Arabia (shorter version except in the UK)
- Gone with the Wind (complete version in Ireland)
- Herman Wouk, Youngblood Hawke
- Leonide Moguy, Les hommes veulent vivre
- Books:
- Cecily Mackworth, Guillaume Apollinaire and the Cubist Life
- Frank MacShane, The Life and Work of Ford Madox Ford
- Ulick O'Connor, The Times I've Seen [about Oliver St. John Gogarty]
- Lloyd Frankenberg, James, Seumas, Jacques [about James Stephens]
- Clive Hart, Concordance [to Finnegans Wake]
- Adaline Glasheen, A Second Census of Finnegans Wake
14:14 (April 9, 1963) 286
- Movies:
- Question Seven [film about a man of God and his conscience in "Red Germany" banned in Finland]
- Edouard Molinaro, Une Ravissante Idiote -- with Anthony Perkins and Brigitte Bardot
- Toys in the Attic
- Dino de Laurentis pushes ahead with his project to film the entire Bible
- Books:
- Charles Ryskamp and Frederic Pottle, eds. The Ominous Years [the James Boswell papers]
- Jules Feiffer, Harry, the Rat with Women
- Mary McCarthy, The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed
- Stan Evans, Revolt on Campus
- Brendan Behan play, Richard's Cork Leg
14:18 (May 7, 1963) 368
- Ezra Jack Yeats, illustrator, The Snowy Day and for Tia Maria's Garden by Ann Nolan Clark
- Movies:
- Sammy Davis, Jr. cast as the organ-grinder in Threepenny Opera and sings Mack the Knife
- Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Incense to idols
- Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard
- Richard Hughes, High Wind in Jamaica
- Irving stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Visit
- Lawrence Durrell, Justine
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler
- Ensign Pulver sequel to Mr. Roberts
- Books:
- Georges Simenon, Pedigree [autobiography recast as a novel]
- Josef Albers, Interaction of Color
- Mythologies de la Méditerranée au Gange (Larousse-In-Quarto)
- Mythologies des steppes, des forêts et des îles (Larousse In-Quarto)
- Carl Jung (and Aniela Jaffé), Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- Beatrix Potter, [complete set by Frederick Warne & Co.]
14:20 (May 21, 1963) 412
- Movies:
- PT-109
- Graham Greene, The Living Room
- Art: (both books "well done, charming, and bright as playing cards")
- Alfred Werner, Henri Rousseau
- Jean Bouret, Douanier Rousseau
- Books:
- Asa Briggs, ed., William Morris: Selected Writings and Designs
- Ralph de Toledano, The Greatest Plot in History
- John O'Hara, Elizabeth Appleton
- Barry Goldwater, Conscience of a Conservative (18th printing)
- Vivian Mercier, The Irish Comic Tradition
14:22 (June 4, 1963) 460
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14:24 (June 18, 1963) 501 15: 2 (July 16, 1963) 26
15: 4 (July 30, 1963) 65
15: 6 (August 13, 1963) 110
15: 8 (August 27 1963) 156
15:10 (September 10, 1963) 204
15:14 (October 8, 1963) 312
15:16 (October 22, 1963) 354
15:18 (November 5, 1963) 402
15:22 (December 3, 1963) 488
15:24 (December 17, 1963) 535 1964
13 pieces
16: 2 (January 14, 1964) 30 16: 8 (February 25, 1964) 159
16:12 (March 24, 1964) 243
16:14 (April 7, 1964) 282
16:20 (May 19, 1964) 408
16:22 (June 2, 1964) 451
16:24 (June 16, 1964) 504
16:28 (July 14, 1964) 615
16:34 (August 25, 1964) 731
16:36 (September 8, 1964) 778
16:44 (November 3, 1964) 976
16:46 (November 17, 1964) 1020
16:50 (December 15, 1964) 1115 1965
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17: 4 (January 26, 1965) 68 also four pieces with heading 'Books Abroad" might be GD's work Back to Periodicals (All)