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Jean Charles Millet, 32, of Barbizon, France, was extremely fond of his grandfather. Who, indeed, would not be fond of such a forbear as the late great Jean Francois Millet, painter of The Angelus and Man With Hoe? So fond was Grandson Jean Charles that last week he was ignominiously thrust into a jail in Melun. For his fondness sprang from the fact that he had been able to use his grandfather's illustrious name in a scheme to bilk the public...
...Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...
...Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing his perennial search for a champagne in which the bubbles go down instead of up, and ever so politely inquiring, "Did you ever feel as though you had a live trout inside you?" Most of the stories he tells are ridiculous, dipsomanianecdotes...
...Manhattan last week 400 young women made a polite but determined entrance into a room on the 22nd floor of the Hotel Barbizon. They were dressed in their anxious best. They were members of the Junior League of America and they were visiting their new national headquarters...
...George Rowland of New York, aged 61, landscapist; and T. Alexander Harrison, 73, originally a Philadelphian but, like the other two, so long a resident of France that his hands have learned to talk, and the feeling of his landscapes takes you back to the best days of the Barbizon school. All three are members of the Legion d'Honneur; all three have contributed to the spring salon since the century turned, and longer. Painter Harrison this year hung four canvases- "La Marne," "Solitudes," "Images," "Le Midi" (all to be pronounced as they were painted, Frenchwise, exquisitely...