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Although the new movement in literature and painting known as "Surrealisme" began in Paris some time before 1924, it still remains the "dernier cri", receiving fresh impetus each year, new recruits, new exponents. In this age when new art movements have rapid births but even quicker deaths this fact alone, the persistence of Surrealisme not for a year but for almost ten, should warrant sufficient consideration. But we must not leap too hastily to any conclusion, either for or against. Some of us who mocked the first exhibitions of Cubism in America, notably the Amory Show, have learnt...
...Roche) who is a cross between the Admirable Crichton and a Christian saint. To all emergencies he responds with almost divine calm and good sense, never forgetting his hospitality. As the flames lick up over the roof's parapet he is still offering to bring blankets, wine, hope, dernier confort...
...present in preparation three novels, three plays, a book of short stories, a book of poems, a book of essays. Other books: La Nuit Kurde, Les Chasses de Renaut, Sur un Cargo, Cacaouettes et Bananes, Locomotives, Levy, Carnaval Est Mort, two plays: Dix Filles dans un Pre, Le Dernier Empereur...
...must have speedily organized a group of singers for it came to the fore and won the silver cup that year. Its submission enabled the Jubilee to be held that year on Wednesday, June 2. The famous traditional white flannels and dark coats were innovated as le dernier cri for the well-dressed man at the Jubilee...
...unchaperoned these days. For there he will encounter nothing but various concoctions all labelled "naughty" and exploiting various and sundry degress of "it". The "Follies" have a butter-and-egg complex, and supplement everything risque with the 100 beautiful legs of the 50 glorious Greenwich models. While it is dernier cri in New York smartness, the closest glimpse one gets of the notorious Village is a night club whose snaky denizens seem to be suffering from the effects of the last rehearsals. Indeed, it takes "Roxie", Chicago's most successful woman murderess, to start things in the night club...