Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perfect Marriage (by Arthur Goodrich; William Caryl, producer). At a cottage in Auvergne, Bernard Catalan, an aged French playwright, and his wife are about to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. So notably harmonious has this marriage been that the President of the Republic and the Academy send felicitations. The old folks coo and hold hands. Whereupon appears Louise Morel (Fay Bainter), the playwright's secretary in his earlier days. Off go the wigs and greasepainted wrinkles as Mile Morel begins to tell her story of how Mme Catalan once had a weak moment with an actor and M. Morel once...
...week. There were a great many mink coats, and gentlemen carrying chamois gloves in their inverted bowlers. On the walls were brilliant, brittle portraits in flat, bright color of very smart people immaculately dressed, and decorative landscapes in which trees and houses were frankly drawn with ruler and compass. Bernard Boutet de Monvel was having his first New York exhibition in five years...
Pictures every child should know are in the series of oblong French story books which Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Bernard's father, illustrated nearly 50 years ago. The late Senator William Andrews Clark knew them well and commissioned Boutet de Monvel pere to do a long mural panel of Joan of Arc which was one of the most important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours...
Commending the enterprises of the group that is planning to publish the new Harvard Critic, Bernard De Voto '20, instructor in English, declared recently that there was always room at Harvard for such a paper and that the moment was opportune for breaking in on the monopoly now held by the three undergraduate publications...
...liked the Southwest, wrote about it in "all kinds" of books. Though she never got to Easy Street she was soon a familiar figure on Bigwig Boulevard. Some of her friends: the late Poet Sterling, the late Jack London, Herbert Hoover, the late great Theodore Roosevelt, May Sinclair, George Bernard Shaw, the late Amy Lowell, Diego Rivera, Emma Goldman, Willa Gather...