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...upon a time, Paris was an artist's paradise. The ambiance was inspirational, the scenery delicious and, most important, around every corner waited a spacious, high-ceilinged studio flooded with the luminescence of the Parisian sky. Dirt cheap, too. The School of Paris was virtually born in the Bateau-Lavoir, a Montmartre dump so named for its ramshackle resemblance to a laundry barge. Picasso, Juan Gris, Utrillo and Braque all lived there before World War I. La Ruche (The Beehive) in Montparnasse was a roachy, twelve-sided wooden structure with wedge-shaped studios where Modigliani, Soutine, and even...
...boys from Bucharest did the customary tourist scene-a bateau mouche ride down the Seine, a grand tour of Versailles, a quick tramp through the Louvre, a weekend in the Loire Valley chateau country-but at the same time took plenty of opportunity to flirt with the French government. Charles de Gaulle is convinced that the Soviet bloc is crumbling under the pressure of traditional nationalisms, thus opening opportunities for the spread of French influence. De Gaulle himself granted Maurer an hour-long audience in which he turned on that rarely seen Gaullist charm. As Maurer emerged, newsmen asked...
...known to literature. At 17, Arthur Rimbaud was already a poet of genius. He had a face like an angel's and a satanic determination to undergo what he called "a long, immense and deliberate derangement of all the senses . . . seeking every possible experience." Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre took Verlaine's breath away. In the cafés the "child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with sharp cries of "Merde!" One day he denounced a critic as an "excreter of ink." The critic took prompt revenge by noting that...
Organ Music by Modern Composers (Richard Ellsasser; M-G-M). Some of the gaudiest organ sounds outside the Roxy are mixed with some in a more reposeful vein in these nine pieces. Among the best: Bartok's En Bateau, a flashy, seasick impression of a boatride; Copland's Episode, a neat vignette that builds from nearly nothing to a roiling climax; Milhaud's delicately tinted Pastorale; Messiaen's mystical Le Banquet Celeste...
...good of racing, waives the stud fee for poor owners of mares with fine strains. Through 1941 he has sired 335 registered foals. His get had won 1,069 races for $2,970,428. Some of his more brilliant offspring: American Flag, Crusader, War Admiral, Mars, Clyde Van Dusen, Bateau, Scapa Flow, War Glory, Genie and Battleship. Big Red was the famed Seabiscuit's grandpa. Though his weight is up a little and his back has sagged a trifle, he still has plenty of life in him: this year he will take care of from ten to a dozen...