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Beaton/A/A1/107/36
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- 24 Aug. 1959 (Creation)
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4p paper
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He and Jack send 'most heartfelt good wishes' for "Landscape with Figures". Has just returned from a visit to the Paleys in New Hampshire. Does not enjoy houses 'overrun with children', so it was nice to return home. From having been a 'gregarious' person, now feels the need for 'huge doses of privacy'. At the Paleys there was a lot of talk about the Hayward-Churchill 'fandango'. Had a letter from Slim, who said that Leland has not asked for a divorce, 'though Mrs. C. tells everyone she will be Mrs. H. in November'. Babe and Minnie have 'vowed undying enmity' to Mrs. C., while Betsy is her 'greatest partisan' as she is so grateful 'that the threat to her own happy home has been removed'. New York is divided into two camps. The 'pro-Slim contingent' has 'sent Mrs. Hornblow to the firing squad' because she gave a dinner for Leland and Mrs. C. Thinks that Mrs. C. will win the contest in the end, though he is a 'Slimite to the death'. Expresses sympathy for Slim. Asks if Eileen could send him the address of the Bolton Studios. Harold Arlen's score for "Saratoga"is excellent, but the cast sounds 'dismal'. Isherwood has taken a teaching job in California.