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...Robert Edmond Jones, probably the most important of American stage designers today is represented by two of his drawings for the settings for "The Green Pastures," and the famous ship scene in Part II of "Mourning Becomes Electra," and several other settings, the best of which is the imaginative series for "Wozzeck," a short-lived play of a year...
...many opera rumors of the past year. Soprano Maria Jeritza and Tenor Beniamino Gigli, both out of the Metropolitan this year, were two names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes at the Metropolitan Opera House. Would this be the opera company to establish itself in Rockefeller Center? That...
Folk who are decorating their homes with Victorian antiquities this autumn, in accordance with the mode, would do well to go and see the decorations which Robert Edmond Jones has provided for Camille. Producer Delos Chappell & wife, who first presented the revival at Central City, Colo. this summer (TIME, Aug. 1), have arranged their own translation of the script without, apparently, distinguishing it from previous translations. After four weeks in Manhattan, Camille, Miss Gish and the scenery will take to the road...
...heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said that Proust was "really the only man I ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France, Prince Antoine Bibesco and his cousin Marthe. No coward, Proust fought a duel with a journalist who had reviewed him unfavorably. He was a Dreyfusard when merely to be a Jew in France was dangerous...
...Edmond and Denise got along pretty well. Then when he was away on a business trip, she fell without much of a struggle to Managua, professional lady-killer, and took the affair so hard that her conscience went to her head, nearly drove her off it. Edmond was so nice about it that she gave up lady-killers for a long Lent. Edmond's father died, Denise rushed Edmond to the throne, encouraged him into such a multiplicity of ventures that at last he failed. But by that time they had so much practice in being partners, Denise...