Word: cocteau
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...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...
...evening last week, The Company of Four, a London longhair repertory group, presented Jean Cocteau's Azrael (English title: The Eagle Has Two Heads),* Next morning Londoners learned that whatever might be said about the play (and little was said in its favor), a young woman named Eileen Herlie, of whom few had ever heard before, was a Great Actress...
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...
...laureate of the Maquis. In English these poems, intensely patriotic, often loose and ballad-like, richly embellished with surrealist imagery, are eloquent, interesting, but difficult to assess as poetry. The detached reader is likely to wonder whether Aragon is being canonized with too little regard for Jean Cocteau's cynical observation: "In French poetry there is only one rhyme: La France, la Résistance...
...Paris intends to visit the world. Last week 35 leading couturieres (Schiaparelli, Lucille, Lucien Lelong, et al.) were showing off their latest concoctions in advance of an international tour. The 200 models (soon to visit the U.S., Britain and South America) were 18-inch wire dolls. Ace Artists Jean Cocteau and Christian ("Bébé") Berard painted the miniature sets. To help revive its fashion industry, Paris launched the show with full fanfare-in the Louvre...