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...Order in Council, unpublished because it was supposedly of no public interest, Montel got the right to stay in Canada, eventually become a citizen if he desired. Included in the order were two other Frenchmen: Dr. André Charles Emanuel Boussat and Julien Gaudens Labedan. A similar order is in the works for a fourth small-time collaborator, Jean Louis Hue. The government's rationalization: "Well, they're here. They've got jobs. Let them stay...
...Reciprocal Curve. It was not Nadelman's academic skill that started all the talk. Right alongside of his classic nudes he was showing other figures geometrically distorted in a way that foreshadowed cubism. Describing them in his Journal, Novelist André Gide wrote that "Nadelman draws with a compass and sculpts by assembling rhomboids. He has discovered that every curve of the human body is accompanied by a reciprocal curve which opposes it and corresponds to it. The harmony which results from these balancings smacks of the theorem." Gide had put his finger on one undeniable weakness of Nadelman...
Hamlet in French. And there was drama. The Scottish Repertory's production of Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, a Scottish morality play written in 1540 and last performed in 1554, was a high point of the festival. There was a production of the André Gide Hamlet. ("A moving experience," reported the New York Times's Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades...
Hyenas & Jackals. Like the International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, Aug. 30), the intellectuals divided on the East-West issue. Alexander Fadeev, head sheep dog of the Russian writing pack, called Western culture "disgusting filth" and denounced T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passes and André Malraux. "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens," said Fadeev, "they would write such things...
...French Socialist Party had lost its vigor, and its attraction for French voters. All it had left was its honor, which it tossed away last week in a stupid double-cross that caused the fall of Premier André Marie's month-old government...