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...Matisse group, called in derision Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), included André Derain, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Georges Rouault, Maurice de Vlaminck, Othon Friesz...
IMPRESSIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA- André Siegfried-Harcourt, Brace ($2). André Siegfried has made a name for himself as a critical visitor, not only of the U. S. but of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. French to the core (which thinks itself sounder than that of any other nation) he looks about him in his travels with a penetratingly shrewd eye. On a swift tour of South America two years ago he wrote a series of diary letters to friends in France, telling what he thought about what he saw. Collected, they make a short book...
...Sorbonne, Paris' 700-year-old university, there are neither football teams, fraternities nor student proms. Undergraduate amusements are far more individual. Not long ago Students André Sarved, Paul de Rivaudier and Lucien Hoch sat behind a mounting tower of saucers at a Montparnasse café table and decided that French deputies, who were then shouting themselves into a lather over payment of War Debts to the U. S., were appallingly ignorant of U. S. life, geography, institutions...
...crucial years in the life of a steel puddler, Jim Stanley (Charles Bickford), and his loving wife, Anna. Jim starts out as a laborer, becomes, for the purposes of the narrative, a steel tycoon almost overnight. In an addled way, he gets involved with a lecherous blonde girl (Gwili André) in New York and even tries to divorce his wife to marry her. Suddenly, in court, he experiences a change of heart, admits he has bribed witnesses to testify against his wife, goes to jail for perjury. By the time he gets out, Jim is no longer a tycoon...
...last week. POW! WHEEE! FUMP! For three long hours manhole covers burst from their settings, hurtled through the air, followed by 20-ft. comets of flame. The first covey of covers was flushed on the Boulevard St. Denis. Soon they were popping on St. Lawrence Boulevard, Jean Talon, St. André and De Fleurimont Streets. Mile away, an isolated gas station at the corner of Cremazie & St. Lawrence Boulevards blew up with a roar. A precise ambulance interne noted that the manager when picked up had been blown just 35 ft. Two miles further out the manholes of Guin Boulevard...