Books

January, 1971

Time again to scan the treats for eye and mind that publishers have packaged for this giving season. If your friends' fancies run to sports cars or Shakespeare, to Paris or pulp magazines, to stars of celluloid or comic strip, you could do worse than check out your nearby bookstore.Movie historian Richard Griffith, for many years curator of the Museum of Modern Art's Film Library, has written what may stand as a definitive work on Hollywood's star system. The Movie Stars (Doubleday) perceptively...