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NIGHT & DAY
Book by Greene, Graham
288 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1985
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May 6, 2021
Christopher Hawtree edited and “introduced” the compilation of all the issues of Night and Day from its beginning on July 1, 1937, to its demise a short five months later on December 23. It must have been heady times for those involved on the staff: Graham Greene, John Marks, Selwyn Powell and Paul Crum. In his preface to this lovely book, Greene says: “It was for all four of us who made up the staff a happy experience. I cannot believe that any paper has been so completely free from personal antagonisms….”
Greene adds: I was very proud of my regular team of critics – Evelyn Waugh (books), Elizabeth Bowen (theatre), Herbert Read (detective stories), Osbert Lancaster (art), Hugh Casson (architecture), and A. J. A. Symons (restaurants.” The list of contributors, which are included as an appendix, Greene remembers as reading “like the death of a whole literary generation.
The stories of his Greene’s involvement in this ill-fated enterprise are recounted elsewhere, especially the lawsuit over Greene’s review of “Wee Willie Winkie,” the film starring Shirley Temple, (one of two lawsuits against the paper actually), which certainly must have contributed to its financial downfall.
Greene contributed 17 of the film review columns over the five months, including the infamous Shirley Temple one on October 28, 1937, which is reprinted in full in this book, but with an explanation that it is reprinted “only for reasons of historical interest and without any intention of further maligning the good name of Mrs. Shirley Temple Black.”
Greene adds: I was very proud of my regular team of critics – Evelyn Waugh (books), Elizabeth Bowen (theatre), Herbert Read (detective stories), Osbert Lancaster (art), Hugh Casson (architecture), and A. J. A. Symons (restaurants.” The list of contributors, which are included as an appendix, Greene remembers as reading “like the death of a whole literary generation.
The stories of his Greene’s involvement in this ill-fated enterprise are recounted elsewhere, especially the lawsuit over Greene’s review of “Wee Willie Winkie,” the film starring Shirley Temple, (one of two lawsuits against the paper actually), which certainly must have contributed to its financial downfall.
Greene contributed 17 of the film review columns over the five months, including the infamous Shirley Temple one on October 28, 1937, which is reprinted in full in this book, but with an explanation that it is reprinted “only for reasons of historical interest and without any intention of further maligning the good name of Mrs. Shirley Temple Black.”
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