![]() ![]() ![]() Why the linkage? Left to ourselves, we work it out. Her loss of consciousness, her fall into darkness,Īre bluntly yoked by John Updike to Clarence's emergence into doubt's sunshine. Yet Mary Pickford has been there all the time, a questioning bubble in the reader's brain. It is not until the pagination is in three figures that the cinema is mentioned again. This champagney transformation of Clarence Wilmot leads into a densely compelling account of the freedoms and terrors involved when a man of the cloth feels, and submits to, ''the calm, merciless, impersonal truths'' of irreligion. The sensation was distinct - a visceral surrender, a set of dark sparkling bubbles escaping upward.'' Clarence Arthur Wilmot, down in the rectory of the Fourth Presbyterian Church at the corner of Straight Street and Broadway, felt the last particles of his faith leave ![]() ''At the moment when Mary Pickford fainted, the Rev. But Griffith, Pickford and the Biograph Company never reappear in the novel they are images raised to be Mary Pickford, short of sleep and overcostumed for a hot day, faints. ![]() Griffith is filming ''The Call to Arms'' on the grounds of a mock-medieval castle in Paterson, Domestic and epic, intimiste and magisterial, ''In the Beauty of the Lilies'' begins with a sly misdirection. ![]()
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