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...sculptures ran the range from the realism of Auguste Rodin and Aristide Maillol to the tortured what-is-its of contemporary abstractionists. Among the standouts: Rodin's cape-shrouded, beetle-browed Balzac, Maillol's hippy, sprawling nude, The River, and Ossip Zadkine's roughhewn Statue for a Garden. Such statues were easy to look at. Old-fashioned visitors to Middelheim were not so sure about some of the others...
Fish & Salt Water. Berlioz, like the hero of a Balzac novel, was a man who drove his way to fame through sheer determination. He was steered into medicine by his physician-father, but he hated it. When his parents opposed his musical career, Berlioz calmly wrote, "I shall succeed . . . There is no longer any point in being modest about this...
Meanwhile, other British beasts were reverting to type. "A blue tit," wrote a correspondent to the letters column of the Times of London, "flew in at my window this morning, woke me up by thumping a Balzac novel, and proceeded to reconnoitre...
Greta Garbo, determined to be alone, fled from Rome to Ostia for a few days rest before starting work in Paris on her first film in eight years (Balzac's Duchesse de Langeais). When a cameraman caught her strolling the black sands without the protection of her usual droopy hat, she took to cover anyway...
Greta Garbo, off to Europe where she will seriously consider making her first movie in eight years (Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais), made a standard Garbo exit. Dressed in black and hidden under a large mushroom-shaped hat, she slipped aboard the Queen Elizabeth, ahead of the crowds, eluded reporters by having the stewardess tell them that Miss Garbo had not yet come aboard...