Word: cancan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life make an exotic gallery: blonde French Dancer Colette Marchand as the rapacious streetwalker who almost drives Lautrec to suicide; Suzanne Flon as the perceptive, understanding model, Myri-ame Hayem; Hollywood's flouncy Zsa Zsa Gabor as man-chasing Singer Jane Avril (in real life, a favorite Lautrec cancan model); Katherine Kath as the tigerish, redheaded dancer Louise Weber...
...film much of the quality of Lautrec's own work. Shot in authentic Parisian settings, the picture features muted blue-green backgrounds splashed with hot pinks, burnt oranges and yellows as Lautrec's lonely little figure hobbles down Montmartre's cobblestone streets, or as the cancan dancers come on in the heat and haze of the Moulin Rouge in a swirl of black silk stockings and white lace petticoats. At its visual best, the picture is a Lautrec painting come to life: it has the nervous, whip-cracking line, the absinthe bite, the very color of corruption...
...Vivacious Cancan. Monteux was not the man for solemn speeches or long faces. His 96 musicians gave him a party at which the eleven women of the orchestra put on a vivacious cancan. Cracked Monteux, "It took me 17 years to see what pretty legs they have." With enormous gusto, he knifed into a huge cake lettered "Au revoir, cher Maître." And he set straight one matter that has intrigued San Franciscans for years: "I make you a declaration. My hair, it is not dyed...
...Buckingham Palace and Margaret's room there: "There's nothing remotely royal about it," said a friend. "It is the kind of room you might expect to belong to the younger daughter of a rather old-fashioned country house." ¶for the Cancan Margaret danced two years ago (TIME, July...
Eight times Seattle pulled out all the stops to welcome home a boatload of "rotating" G.I.s returning from Korea. The standard welcome program: brass bands, free theater tickets, ice cream, candy, a performance on the wharf by bathing beauties, swivel-hipped hula girls, and prancing cancan dancers. The boys thought it was great stuff, but some of Seattle's moms didn't. They wrote letters to the papers, buttonholed and berated officials to complain about the show the girls put on at dockside...