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Mild-looking, baldish Georges Rouault, who was born in a bomb shelter during the Paris Commune, is now 69, is presumably living and working in occupied France, perhaps in Paris, where he holds a sinecure as director of a museum full of fairy-tale paintings by his teacher, Academician Gustave Moreau. Today a good Rouault costs about $3,500. For the Institute's Rouault show, Director Plaut was unable to import any paintings from Europe, or even to borrow one from the late exhibition at the New York World's Fair. He collected his show from...
...immortals," Charles Maurras was challenged to a duel. Challenger was Jean Prouvost, publisher of Paris-Soir, whom Maurras had charged with "flattering the basest instincts of the masses." Maliciously courteous, Publisher Prouvost offered, in view of Maurras' extreme age and deafness, to fight any proxy he might name. Academician Maurras declined the challenge, but not because of old age. "So far as my age is concerned," said he, "M. Prouvost can rest assured that it has left me all my strength. But I shall not employ it to whitewash him." Thereupon punctilious M. Prouvost drew up a proces -verbal...
...items of painting and sculpture were by good contemporaries, though two of the best were Millet's Woman with a Rake, lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Monet's Les Déchargeurs de Carbon. The artists ranged from such ununionized souls as Academician Jonas Lie and Merrymaker Doris Lee to Proletarians Joe Jones and Mervin Jules. The subject matter of Labor was conceived generously enough to admit a painting of industrial buildings by Classicist Charles Sheeler. Even more varied was a display of 180 prints and drawings, from the 15th Century to the present, from...
...young French writers and a large share of the general population, an election to the French Academy has no more relation to literature or life than the changing of the Guard at London's Whitehall. But Academicians themselves, of whom Academician Anatole France said that their literary ineptitude was exceeded only by their skill in intrigue, take it with deadly seriousness. Votes are traded, sponsors courted, wires pulled, ceaseless lobbies conducted in social and political circles, usually evoking more public amusement than concern...
...cinema for over a year. But the original idea for this latest of Fascist corporations belonged to neither Vittorio Mussolini nor Hollywood Producer Hal Roach. It belonged to an earnest Italian, Dr. Renato Senise, nephew of the chief of Rome's secret police and son of an Academician. To Hollywood he went over a year ago fired with his pet idea, the production of full length cinema operas in Italy where tenors are as plentiful as olives. There he met Producer Hal Roach. Mr. Roach has spent a great many of his 45 years in Hollywood among the custard...