HOLLYWOOD AND MARK TWAIN
Sir-I have seen the film The Adventures of Mark Twain and agree generally with your review. But there is one point on which G.M. does injustice to Hollywood. That is his criticism of the importance given to the appearance of Halley’s Comet at Mark Twain's birth and death. In some biographical notes | which I read some 10 or 12 years ago an even greater importance was attributed to this coincidence. There the author claimed that Mark Twain was also spiritually influenced and firmly believed he would die on the comet’s reappearance. This does not sound quite so fantastic after reading "Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven." I am sorry that I am unable to quote the reference, but whether correct or not the comet idea was not original Hollywood.
J. E.
MANTNER
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 29
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138HOLLYWOOD AND MARK TWAIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 363, 7 June 1946, Page 29
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