BIB_ID
455232
Accession number
MA 23840.1381
Creator
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013, sender.
Credit line
Gift of James Ivory, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.8 x 24.9 cm
Notes
Year from postmark.
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory (Apt. 12-G), 400 East 52nd St., New York, N.Y. 10022, U.S.A., postmarked February 2, 1974.
"Like Angelika's, to Joe and Edith's to Cary" refers to Angelika and Joe Saleh, and (Stuart) Cary and Edith Welch.
"Penelope Betjaman's film on Kulu" was made for the BBC in 1974 and titled "A Passion for India."
Aerogramme addressed to Mr. James Ivory (Apt. 12-G), 400 East 52nd St., New York, N.Y. 10022, U.S.A., postmarked February 2, 1974.
"Like Angelika's, to Joe and Edith's to Cary" refers to Angelika and Joe Saleh, and (Stuart) Cary and Edith Welch.
"Penelope Betjaman's film on Kulu" was made for the BBC in 1974 and titled "A Passion for India."
Provenance
James Ivory.
Summary
Wondering how Ivory is getting on with casting Queenie; discussing the "'20s idiom" in the poem and wondering "how you're going to reproduce it" in the film; pointing out that "since you've never lived in the Hollywood of the '20s, you have to soak yourself in everything you can get your hands on about it ... as I've said before to take incidents from real life, things that really happened to people like Fatty Arbuckle and Harold Lloyd etc. You mention Marion Davies [and Hearst] ..."; relating how the details of these real people's lives help to give her "a grasp on a character"; telling him "Cary passed through Delhi very briefly again" and listing Welch's destinations-- Chandigarh, Benares, Calcutta, Bombay to meet Edith, and then a tour of southern India; suspecting that Cary and his current traveling companion Paul "are wearing a bit thin on each other"; describing Paul and the photographs and drawings he and Cary are buying (or not buying) during their travels; dropping a wry observation about the Indian papers' reaction to "Penelope Betjaman's film on Kulu."
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