Word: bretons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from Denver, Colo., learn bronc riding, Western music, plain & fancy roping. Only requirement for membership is sincere interest in Le Wild West, but since its quarters are limited, the club has a long waiting list. Members are all French except for Chief Oskomon. a bonafide Indian, and Pauline Le Breton, daughter of Rear Admiral David Le Breton, U. S. N., assigned last spring to command of the Yangtze River patrol...
...without fuss or feathers, assumed significance in modern art. He was 37-year-old William Hayter, a onetime teacher of engraving in Paris. His distinction: that of being the first Surrealist painter of the Paris school to visit the fighting zone in Spain. Much has been written by Andre Breton and other Surrealists on their profound affinity with the antiFascists. So far as is known, William Hayter beat them all to Madrid...
...Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, the exhibition gave ample evidence of the continuing fertility of such Surrealists as Photographer Man Ray, Sculptor Hans Arp. Painters Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and especially Salvador Dali. That dapper master of mystification was represented not only by the flivver group at the entrance but by paintings ranging from Le grand masturbateur (1929)10 Telephone aphrodisiaque...
...generation a few younger Frenchmen have lately popped. Last week one of these was introduced to the U. S. by Manhattan Dealer Julien Levy, whose eye is on Paris like a hawk's. The debutant was Rene Pierre Tal-Coät, a shy, husky, onetime Breton sailor, now 32, who has lived for ten years in one sixth-floor room at 5 Rue 'de Plaisance, teaching himself how to paint. In probably the first period of French history when a painter could win repute without one sniff at an art school, Artist...
ELIZABETHAN TALES-edited by Edward J. O'Brien-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Indefatigable Editor O'Brien (Best Short Stories, annually since 1915) here collects 25 short stories by Elizabethans Sir Philip Sidney (see p. 101), Thomas Nashe, Robert Greene, Nichols Breton, lesser-known worthies...