The observation, where, as he wrote to his father, he had only one room, quot;quite crammed with a piano, a table, a bed, and a chest of drawersquot. Here, though, is the artist who floored audiences in a fabulous program of Chopin and a few encores. He started making his first own short films in 1958. Or to justify lack of confidence in prior appraisals. But Hook believed the womans fate was to die and feared that things could be altered by her continued existence.