Mr. Kerr’s Second Passion

The Silent Clowns By Walter Kerr

Knopf, 374 pp., $17.95 Walter Kerr has been going to the theater so long-by theater I mean the place where people move around in their own three-dimensional flesh-that his fascination with movies, specifically silent movies, may come as a surprise to his constant readers. As one of that tribe I admit to the reaction, for The Silent Clowns is such a full-throated paean to a very other theater, the one of flickering flat shadows, that the manifestation of this second passion cannot but amaze.

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The Silent Clowns By Walter Kerr

Knopf, 374 pp., $17.95 Walter Kerr has been going to the theater so long-by theater I mean the place where people move around in their own three-dimensional flesh-that his fascination with movies, specifically silent movies, may come as a surprise to his constant readers. As one of that tribe I admit to the reaction, for The Silent Clowns is such a full-throated paean to a very other theater, the one of flickering flat shadows, that the manifestation of this second passion cannot but amaze.