DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-295
title: 132. Moon and sixpence, 1959-10-30; Chessman death sentence appeal, 1957; Rexroth on books, 1955-10-19

description: Tape 132, side 1) "The moon and sixpence" (television teleplay, from W. Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name based on the life of Paul Gauguin), 1959 October 30 (0:02, 3:13, 51:08, 52:20). Commercials: Renault Dauphine (automobile) (1:22, 32:17, 49:08), Milton Berle special on Sunday Showcase (50:30), Max Factor gold fire lipstick (50:35), C&H cane sugar (50:57), RCA Victor Newsmakers stereo system furniture consoles (51:17), sealed electronic circuits (59:06), Monarch Mocha Ridge Coffee (1:00:00). Music "If you ever got to my hometown" by Jack Fulton and Lois Steele (sung by the King's Jesters) (59:15). The Quizathon, WBBM (radio), Pat Weaver and others, calling Mrs. Kelly. ❧ Tape 132, side 2, part A) Paul Posner (lawyer) on the Caryl Chessman (robber, kidnapper, rapist) death sentence case appeal, KPFK radio (0:09), re Charles W. Fricke (judge), J. Miller Leavy (chief prosecutor), 1957 hearing, getting a daily transcript, 1948 trial, Ernest Perry (court reporter), Rosalee Archer. ❧ Tape 132, side 2, part B) Kenneth Rexroth speaking on books, KPFK radio (5:41, 39:50), re Gary Snyder (poet), Phillip Whalen (poet), Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poet), Michael McClure (poet), American journalism debauching literature and poetry, the war between art and commercialism, agent provocateurs and stool pigeons, a beatnik is an artistic strike breaker, Rexroth reading from Synder's book Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems "The late snow and lumber strike of the summer of fifty-four" (11:19) and "For a far-out friend" (12:49), Snyder's experiences in Japan or being out to sea, Jerome Rothenberg's book New Young German Poets (The Pocket Poets Series Number 11), Alexander Koval (editor), Rexroth reading from Günter Grass' book Nana the Doll: Sketches from Her Daily Life [Aus dem Alltag der Puppe Nana] "The clock" [Die Uhr] (17:18) translated into English by Rothenberg [excerpts], Rexroth reading Hans Magnus Enzensberger's "The end of the owls" [Das Ende der Eulen] (20:28) translated into English by Rothernberg, Robert Duncan's Selected Poems (The Pocket Poets Series Number 10), advertises for a volunteer secretary, book acknowledgements, Europe, donation of Rexroth's files to the University of California Los Angeles, a fellowship, books on Negro life, paucity of Negros in the cultural life of San Francisco, segregation in Saint Louis, gambler who bought a house in Woodside and was hassled by the police, party at the home of a literary critic in Los Angeles at which were some mixed-race couples, how many Negros listen to KPFK?, Eliot Elisofon's and William Buller Fagg's book The Sculpture of Africa (Praeger), Francis L. Broderick's book W.E.G. Du Bois: Negro Leader in a Time of Crisis, Walter White (civil rights activist), Negro influence in Egyptian art, Marcus Garvey (political leader), Langston Hughes (poet), Frederick Douglass (social reformer), Fenton Johnson (writer), Jean Toomer (poet), George Frazier Miller (writer), Schuyler, William Stanley Braithwaite (drama critic), Alain Locke (writer), Sterling Brown (poet), Ralph Bunch (political scientist), Negro self-sufficiency and voluntary segregation. ❧ Satirical horror radio play about a lonely robot (40:45, 42:49, 44:51, 46:54, 48:15) including exaggerated characterizations of Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre which incorporates commercials directly into the plot (Frank Sinatra on North American Airlines (41:48), Perfex all-purpose cleaner (43:50), General Motors Powerama, Chicago (45:55), Olson Rug Company, Chicago (47:24)). -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.