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Gentle Aurora Aragon Quezon was a well-loved figure in the Philippines. The wife of the late Manuel Quezon, first President of the Philippines, she had long led a quiet, austere life devoted to charities and the rearing of her family. When the President died, she turned down the pension awarded her by the government, so that the money might be used for needier war widows and orphans. Even the Communist-led Hukbalahaps, who spread terror through the hills of Central Luzon, could find no word to say against Doña Aurora...
...gorgeous Renaissance prince, Henry's wants were simple: personal and dynastic power, personal gratification and money. Life would have been simpler if people had given him what he wanted in the first place. Had Katherine of Aragon given him a son & heir, he might never have married Anne Boleyn since he might have had her as mistress; had Pope Clement VII consented to annul the marriage with Katherine, Henry might never have insisted that he, not the Pope, was head of the Church in England; had the royal treasury been full, he might never have confiscated the Church lands...
...history for Maxwell Anderson, and very likely another hit. From the turbulent story of Henry VIII's Anne Boleyn, Playwright Anderson has made a plump and gaudy stage piece, a thing of fierce desires, clashing wills, momentous acts. For love or lust of Anne, Henry divorced Catherine of Aragon, broke with Rome, opened an age of bloodshed; while the insolent and ambitious Anne would be Henry's queen or nothing at the start, still his queen or nothing at the end-preferring, in Mr. Anderson's account, the block to banishment...
...Paris, a couple of dozen writers and painters-including Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse -dutifully responded to a cable from Charles Chaplin asking them to protest the deportation* to Germany of Hollywood Composer Hanns Eisler. To the Paris Embassy the celebrities sent their message: please let Eisler use his visa to France, where "we expect [him] to write the music for the film Alice in Wonderland." Said Cocteau: "If Eisler's music is good, who cares about his politics? . . . Politics are dirty. Art is pure...
...bejeweled countesses and duchesses in the lobby recoiled as a barefoot, plaid-shirted pilgrim from the Left Bank stalked past them. Communist Poet Louis Aragon stood near Catholic Poet Paul Claudel, and close by was Protestant Novelist André Gide. The opening night that attracted such a variegated audience to the Théatre Marigny promised to be the most exciting of the Paris theater season. And the promise was kept...