Word: cocteau
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...grace drawing rooms wherever there are bright young things, this rococo collection displays not only smart photographs of Britain's Brightest, from Poet W. H. Auden to Princess Natalie Paley, but gifted sketches of stage decor and costumes, needlepointed notes on cinema stars, which prove that Jean Cocteau was right when he called Beaton "Malice in Wonderland...
...anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry ($2), including a translation of a famed essay by Jean Cocteau on the Painter Chirico, four good poems by Wallace Stevens on the Idea of Man, suave Surrealist stories by Montagu O'Reilly, fantasies by Henry Miller, incorrigible author of the more-than-Rabelaisian Tropic of Cancer...
First on the bill was Le Pauvre Matelot (The Poor Sailor). Darius Milhaud, a member of the French modernist Group of Six, wrote it to a poem by Jean Cocteau. After its world premiere in Paris nine years ago, the opera was seldom put on. Many at the U. S. premiere last week, listening to the puzzled, formless music, thought they could tell why. Others were impressed by the vivid passages of declamation, the odd, unpleasant story of a woman who murdered her husband unbeknown...
...Ripley is a Bachelor" was Bachelor's first featured interview. (Ripley's reason: too busy.) Bachelor-of-the-Theatre was Alexander Kirkland, who interviewed himself. A portfolio of "Bachelors-of-the-Arts" included Photographers George Platt Lynes and Hal Phyfe, Poet-Artist Jean Cocteau, Cinemactor Robert Taylor. Julius ("Pete") Street Jr. wrote about Princeton's Triangle Club show under the pseudonym of Peter Street. An article on "The Insolence of American Women" was contributed by a Baron Giorgio Sudani, organizer and president of the Noblemen's Club of New York...
Chavez wrote the Symphony of Antigone because French Poet Jean Cocteau needed music in his "contraction" of the Greek tragedy. The Symphony does not describe what happens in the play, aims only to be elemental and barbaric. Listeners found its odd harmonies impressively elemental, shivered at the wailing strings and dark, discordant brasses...