Negligible efforts perhaps, but there were also about half a dozen truly tantalizing projects that gestated before they were aborted.
For instance, a version of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" which, before it slipped into oblivion, had recruited the services of Isherwood, W. Auden, Samuel Beckett and MelchiorLengyel, the author of the original story on which Ernst Lubitsch's "Ninotchka" was based.
Significantly, Beckett's participation with this project, initiated by Lawrence's widow Frieda, drew a strong rebuke from Huxley who heatedly discouraged Beckett's involvement.
It is not known how Bernstein obtained the articles or if they were published in any of the publications he edited or elsewhere.
Among the authors represented are Boris Almasoff, Leonid Andreyev, Vladimir Bourtzeff, Victor Chernoff, Ossip Dymow, Nicholas Evreinoff, Maxim Gorky, Rebecca Kohut, MelchiorLengyel, Rudolph Lothar, and Arthur Schnitzler.
The collection also includes writings that are not identified by author and/or title.
