Word: cellini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Affairs of Cellini (Twentieth Century). In The Girl from Missouri (TIME, Aug. 13), Lionel Barrymore admires a metal something with sails on a friend's desk. "That's a Cellini," says the friend. Says Barrymore: "I thought it was a boat...
Cinemaddicts who failed to understand this antique joke will not be historically enlightened by Twentieth Century's brief biography of the greatest goldsmith of the 16th Century. It exhibits Cellini only once in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a portrait of him in his spare time, not as the artist but as the medieval playboy, dashing, sly and consecrated to misconduct. Magnificently acted by Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Constance Bennett, directed with delicacy by Gregory La Cava, The Affairs of Cellini is an uproarious and gracefully ribald costume play, rarely informative but almost...
...have tried to squeeze the juice of French characteristics into these pages and to make him as human as Henry, though his own kind of man. The final section is after Pavia with his imprisonment, his second love affair, and the life he builds up on which Benvenuto Cellini throws a big light. It tries to make out the meaning of the whole thing...
...only cheated the gibbet many times but made him a popular hero. Latude, whom a whim of Madame la Pompadour kept thirty-five years fast incarcerated in the Bastille, retained his sanity by taming rats and spiders in his cell. Then there is the whimsical tale of Benvenuto Cellini and the mad constable of St. Angelo...
Basis of the Lenz Process is the ancient art of tire perdue (a refinement of the secret process of Benvenuto Cellini). A figure is modeled in wax, which is in turn enclosed in a mold. Heat melts the wax out, and metal is poured into the aperture. Available for the first time last week were many of Alfred Lenz's secret refinements...