Word: cocteau
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Orpheus, by Jean Cocteau, is a witty, complicated, and thoroughly enjoyable play but it is not, despite the author's claim, a tragedy. But then perhaps one should not take Cocteau's description too seriously since he himself holds very little--and certainly not the Greek legend of Orpheus--as sacred. He uses the story of the Thracian singer as little more than a base on which to build a structure of humor and symbolism and allegory, all deriving their meaning through completely modern references. The result is a curious but somehow still effective blending of the past...
...come here to meet vulgar people like the Kellys." A learned representative of the French Academy, Europe's high temple of culture, launched a formal complaint when Monaco's Prince refused to permit the reading of an ode especially written for the occasion by Academician Jean Cocteau, on the grounds that it was too effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good old Bellevue-Stratford, Jack Kelly's pals from Philly sent him practical jokes in the form of telegrams. "Report back to the Palace, Kelly...
...pilot, skier, cross-country runner and sports-car enthusiast. Realizing that the company's designs were outmoded at war's end. young Philip had new lines styled by Europe's top artists-Finland's Tapio Wirrkala, Germany's Bele Bachem. France's Jean Cocteau. In 1951, when U.S. sales slumped, Rosenthal teamed up with Designer Raymond Loewy to make medium-priced contemporary dinnerware for American tastes. Since then Rosenthal has zoomed from 18th to second place in U.S. sales of imported china...
Fully balancing the power of the Gabricli work was a series of scenes from Oedipus Rex, a setting by Igor Stravinsky of Jean Cocteau's Latin text. The use of piano accompaniment reduced the effectiveness of Stravinsky's rhythmically complex and dramatic score, but exciting singing from the European list group counteracted the lack of an orchestra. I Carter Brown '56 was an excellent narrator and Robert L. Loud '56 sang the part of a messenger lustily. Donald Parsons 1G had too light and lyric a tenor voice for the extremely difficult role of Oedipus...
Miss Julie was not the first of the Brattle's films which the Commissioner failed to approve. The Young and the Damned, Volpone, and Desires, a German picture about drug addiction, all met with frowns and rejections. Others, like Pepe le Moko and Jean Cocteau's The Eternal Return, passed only after cuts...