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...wittiness and waspishness, it sometimes seems to miss out on his inner loneliness and agony. The women in Lautrec's life make an exotic gallery: blonde French Dancer Colette Marchand as the rapacious streetwalker who almost drives Lautrec to suicide; Suzanne Flon as the perceptive, understanding model, Myri-ame Hayem; Hollywood's flouncy Zsa Zsa Gabor as man-chasing Singer Jane Avril (in real life, a favorite Lautrec cancan model); Katherine Kath as the tigerish, redheaded dancer Louise Weber...
...CRIMSON all the while. In those days the paper did not run by-lined stories and consequently it is difficult to assess exactly what he contributed, but one remembrance of his days as Assistant Managing Editor still remains in the form of a framed page from the AME's Report Book of the year 1912-13. A hole has been burned in the middle of the page, and underneath, in a handwriting that later became familiar to presidents and commissars, is written...
Then behind a jet of vaporous breath appeared a vendeuse, rubbing her hands, the national gesture of this winter. Mad ame wished to see a dress? The one with the elbow sleeves and the deep V-neck? But certainly, if Madame could bear to try it on. Yes? Ah, Madame was a real Joan of Arc ! The vendeuse led the way to a dressing room. Heroically Madame took off her coat, then her extra lining, then, with thin-lipped determination, her dress. The vendeuse clucked her admiration of such courage. Deftly she inserted Madame into the model...
...Miss Ame. Then the Young Soldier meets fat, jolly Mr. Transportouse (Transport House is the head quarters of Britain's conservative labor leaders, loathed by leftish Laborites), who genially expounds the wonders that will come from Labor Party gradualism. He takes out of a box two tiny human figures -Mr. Ema (Education for the Masses) and Miss Ame (Ministress for Amenities). They deliver pretty speeches about classless education and beautiful laborsaving apartments for all. This meeting slightly lifts the Young Soldier's spirits. He hurries past a gesticulating Robot mechanically expounding Marxism and predicting Capitalism's postwar...
...Author. Though young (29), "Daniel-Rops" (a pseudonym) has written four books, has won two prizes. His first, Notre inquietude, won the Paul Fiat; l'Ame obscure took second place in the Goncourt; Two Men in Me (Deux homines en moi) won last year's Gringoire Prize. He is a professor of literature at a French University...