Now, Teachout Theater, featuring Jean Negulesco's "Humoresque," a John Garfield-Joan Crawford classical-music soap opera in which Isaac Stern does the off-camera violin playing and Oscar Levant gives his best screen performance ever.
Perhaps a little bit like Don Marquis? E B White mused ruefully (in a letter to James Thurber) about how far off Marquis was in this elegant, darkly romantic forecast http://bit.ly/2YjiMWW of the shape his final years would take. Alas, reality was so much less gallant.