BIB_ID
451192
Accession number
MA 23840.665
Creator
Ivory, James, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1970 October 31
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 aerogramme (2 pages) ; 30.4 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Aerogramme addressed from J. Ivory, 400 E. 52nd Street, New York, 10022.
Addressed to Mr C. S. H. Jhabvala, Anand Apte & Jhabvala, 3/90 Connaught Circus, New Delhi 1, India.
Date from postmark "New York, Oct 31, 1970"; letter dated "Saturday". A later inscription in James Ivory's hand says "10/31/70".
Addressed to Mr C. S. H. Jhabvala, Anand Apte & Jhabvala, 3/90 Connaught Circus, New Delhi 1, India.
Date from postmark "New York, Oct 31, 1970"; letter dated "Saturday". A later inscription in James Ivory's hand says "10/31/70".
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Expressing his condolences for the death of Jhabvala's mother; sympathizing with how difficult this must be for his father; saying the film is opening in New York in a very good theater on November 18 and Dia is distributing it; complaining that "costs have risen astronomically since S. Wallah days and my father was footing the bill"; saying Ismail is "having one of his charity premieres" in hopes it will give the film a "publicity lift"; expressing doubts about this undertaking; saying the newspaper ads, which Joe Saleh likes even though they are "singularly inappropriate and ugly", have been designed in an "Art-Deco" style, and that Leo Lerman, "one of our stand-by critics," writes that "the film itself is 'Art-Deco'"; relating that Ismail is in a "mood of hysteria, panic, and gigantic exertions, with much muttering"; saying he has not been the same since the New York Film Festival.
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