Random Notes the first seven volumes, Walker will publish the monster in hard- cover; Harper & Row in Torch- book paperbacks. On second thought, we’d rather be in Philadelphia: William K. Everson holds forth on The Art of W. C. Fields (Bobbs-Merrill, Fall, $7.50). How about The Social Criticism of Sidney Greenstreet? . .. Allen Dulles is the editor of – Great True Spy Stories,
tales (Harper & Row, Spring). Looks good: A new novel on the good old lost-island-utopia theme, Os- borne’s Army by John Anthony West. The island’s in the Carib- bean; the natives are friendly, the new arrivals happy—until the in- evitable bad guys show up (Mor- row, October, $5.50). . . . Nice: A facsimile edition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Ex- perience, as engraved, ornamented and hand-colored by himself (Grossman, $16.50 to Dec. 25; $20 “ thereafter). e THE Fiicks: Embassy’s The Ski Bum stars. who else but Peter O’Toole. . . . Essy Persson’s (see Movies in Brief, NR, Aug. 22) next is Thérése et Isabelle, a lesbian thing in which she, uh, plays op- ‘posite Anna Gael. … Yet another sequel to The Magnificent Seven is coming from United Artists- Mirisch, alas, alas and despite the awfulness of Return of the Seven. Does Kurosawa get residuals? . Columbia Pictures is backing a British adaptation of Gilbert K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.
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