Word: avignon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sleek, medium-sized Marcel Rochas, a conventional French brunet, is grandson of a Burgundian shepherd and son of an Avignon artist. He was born in Paris in 1902, and presently set out to be a lawyer. He readily explains how his Gallic temperament led him to become a dressmaker...
...news is spicy, ranging all the way from Jim Farley loading a big mail plane to floods in Avignon. Then there's some artistic fantasy about a de-petrified statue of Pan romping about the woods with a charming Cinderella. We liked that. But the day is saved by that trustworthy little mammal, Mickey Mouse. A bandmaster this time, with the help of a tornado he sweeps the audience off its feet. Mickey puts one in a good mood, and the Fine Arts is promising better things...
...week's biggest winner. Louis Ribiere. 32, a small coal-&-wood merchant of Avignon. At dawn he was irritably reaching for his breakfast coffee in an Avignon bistro when the barman pushed him a copy of the morning paper. Ribiere's eye fell on the news that his ticket had won the 5,000,000 franc ($323,000) Grand Prize. He whirled, leaped into the air, vanished out the door, homeward bound to check his ticket number. It checked. He ran back through Avignon's narrow streets to the building where his mother is a janitress. Yipping...
...there is a difference in the Daladier and Coolidge personalities. Edouard Daladier was born near Avignon in Provence 49 years ago, son of a baker. Though Edouard Daladier was no Separatist, a friend of his boyhood was the late great Poet Frederic Mistral, reviver of the Provencal language. Desiring to be a schoolteacher, Edouard Daladier entered a normal school and studied under a plump vomit: man whose career was to parallel his from then on: Edouard Herriot...
...woodengravers, Margaret Haythorne is represented by "Gethsemane." The German H. Kruse's color--print, "Die Blumenkrone," and the "Pieta" a color print by Louis Jou are noteworthy in their class. The "Pieta " of Gwendolen Raverat, the gift of H. S. Bowers '00. is similar to the paintings of the Avignon school in its deliberate stylization. "The Pilot," a linoleum cut by Marion Richardson, an American contemporary, is a portrayal of Christ as a helmsman...