NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Graham Greene For the past half-dozen years, Graham Greene has been writing a second volume of autobiography through introductions to his Collected Edition. Volume IS, 16 and 17 have...
...Odds and Ends The spirit of Lent lives on in St...
...Smith," who proceeded to make drawings of unoccupied ladies as a pair of astonished Tontons Macoute looked on...
...5, 1953, and opens with news about a fire in an abbey building at Gethsemani, in which Merton himself was slightly burned...
...Joseph, Mo...
...Other tidbits of Greene-liana from TLSs culling: Greene enlivened a 1948 visit of Elizabeth Bow-en to Vienna by arranging for the police to raid a night-club where he was entertaining her...
...In the preface to the 1950 book, Greene revealed that the passage was written into the script by Orson Welles, Who, of course, played the part of Harry Lime...
...What we have to do is be able to make any interior experience a springboard for jumping off into the 'beyond* where He remains hidden...
...It is a means to keep us occupied with God, that is all...
...In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce...
...200...
...The Comedians...
...And don't be so gloomy...
...Smith," the vegetarian missionaries of The Comedians, was "a charmingly naive American couple" who had come to Haiti to teach silk-screen painting to the natives...
...Incidentally, Greene lets on that for years after his last visit to Papa Doc Du-valier's paradise, he used to dream that he was back in Haiti incognito...
...With faith as our starting point, we can let ourselves be led by His Spirit into His own ways...
...And that means we must trust Him to lead us and show us what He wants of us...
...Not without good reason," adds TLS, "for Du-valier circulated a document around the world denouncing the author of The Comedians as 'a liar, a cretin, a stool-pigeon . . . unbalanced, sadistic, perverted . . .'" Merton Artifact An autographs and documents house Walter R. Benjamin of Hunter, N.Y...
...Greene, by the way, amplifies on his changing of the hero's name from Rollo Martins, as written in the novel-scenario, to Holley Martins on screen...
...The cuckoo clock...
...Volume IS, 16 and 17 have recently been published in England The Man Within...
...However, at least one of the revisions, in TLS"s opinion, is 'rather odd.' This is the omission from the new introduction to The Third Man of credit for that marvelous piece of dialogue spoken in the movie by "Harry time" about Swiss cuckoo clocks...
...And when we meet, old man, it's you I want to see, not the police...
...However, he abandons the aside perhaps significantly in the new introduction...
...The discoveries are minor and only mildly interesting for what they reveal about' Greene...
...The model for "Mr...
...This was Orson Welles playing Graham Greene and momentarily matching him at his own craft: "When you make up your mind, send me a message I'll meet you any place, any time...
...Mow the dedication reads, tersely: "For Vivien...
...You know what the fellow said: In Italy for 30 years under the Bor-gias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo de Vinci, and the Renaissance...
...And an extraordinary price: with envelope and carbon of a poem entitled An Elegy for the Monastery Barn...
...Greene recalls visiting a brothel in Port-au-Prince with "Mr...
...they're not readily available actually, being in neither the 1950 nor the new text of the book...
...After all, it's not that awful...
...An extraordinary letter in every way," says the catalogue...
...The catalogue description proceeds with a quote from the letter: ". . . about what you said in the first letter on saying the rosary sure, the feeling of peace one gets front praying like that is not ultimate...
...Greene's reaction was one of delight, not outrage...
...1 sum the Whole thing up by saying that you need to put the emphasis on faith in Him, and not on a technique of prayer...
...Now Greene gives it to us straight: "Joseph Cotten quite reasonably objected to the name Rollo, which to an American ear apparently in-v o 1 v e d homosexuality...
...Anyone who ever saw The Third Man film has a memory of the scene on the Praterwheel circling perpendicular to Vienna, and those lines of Harry Lime addressed to Holley Martins...
...john deedy...
...In its March 26 issue, the Times Literary Supplement combed die new introductions for Greene revisionisms...
...and Mrs...
...Ah, but I have them, having sat through several late-night shows years ago to get them down on paper...
...In the original introduction, Greene said that Joseph Cotten, who played the part of Martins, "quite reasonably objected to the name of Rollo...
...is offering a single-spaced, two-page typed letter of Thomas Merton, signed "Fr...
...So long, Holley...
...Greene came to view this Cotton objection unsympa-thetically, adding a parenthetical aside "by God knows what association of ideas" in reflecting on it in another context...
...The Third Man/ Loser Take All...
...TLS did not quote them...
...The name had to be an absurd one, and the name of Holley occurred to me when I remembered that figure of fun, the American poet Thomas Holley Olivers...
...The letter is dated Aug...
...Les' Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge is advertising a Wednesday and Thursday "Letiten Special": for $2.95, a glass of wine, and all the strip sirloin or U.S...
...Now Greene is silent about the authorship...
...No experience of ours can put us in immediate contact with God Who is always beyond experience...
...When Jacques Maritain chose The Man Within (1929) for a series he was editing, he asked Greene to tone down a sex scene for the French translation...
...M. Louis" and carrying a four-line, handwritten postscript...
...The Man Within, for instance, was dedicated in 1929, "For Vivien My Wife in Wonder," followed by a verse from Thomas Hardy...
...prime you can eat...
...You would be making, a big mistake if you thought that some higher or purer interior experience would be more truly ultimate...
...But then most everyone knows about that marriage...
...Maybe you have to have known the prim Miss Bowen to appreciate that anecdote...
Vol. 103 • April 1976 • No. 9
