Word: cocteau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invited to his party this week were Lazareff Friends Prince Peter of Greece, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Mistinguett, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Cocteau, Cinema Producers Marcel Pagnol and René Clair, dozens of writers, Cabinet Ministers, deputies and generals. They could toast Lazareff as one of the few journalists who had lived through, without being stained by, the venal days of France's prewar press. They also could toast a proved proposition : that journalistic honesty can pay off in France...
...Eagle Has Two Heads (translated from the French of Jean Cocteau by Ronald Duncan; produced by John C. Wilson) and, what's more remarkable, flies backwards. Famed French Avant-Gardist Cocteau's "romantic melodrama" is outdated purple-&-plush palace theatrics, which starts off with a poet-revolutionist plunging through a window into the royal boudoir, and winds up with a dying queen toppling headlong down a vast flight of stairs...
When an almost oppressively sophisticated writer turns out so highfalutin a play, there may well be method, even if there is no meaning, in his claptrap. Very possibly Cocteau meant to polish up a lot of passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand...
...come: U.S. ex-Expatriate Henry Miller, Russia's Boris Pasternak, Italy's late Italo Svevo, France's Jean Cocteau and, possibly, the late Paul Valery...
Critics were eager to see Eileen Herlie in something less artificial than Cocteau in order to check their judgments. Hollywood is interested in her, too, but she wants to "dabble quietly before taking the plunge." The big money does hot excite her; she lives quite comfortably on her ?20 a week-top pay for The Company of Four-shares a house with two other women, a composer and a ballet dancer. The "horrible din" of their combined professional exercises doubtless explains why husband Philip Barrett continues to produce his road shows...