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There Ethel Barrymore and Ruth Gordon made their debuts. There, in 1895, at the height of the Oscar Wilde scandal, The Importance of Being Earnest had a panicky U.S. premiere, closed in a week. There, in 1927, Edouard Bourdet's subtle, Lesbian The Captive was closed by the police. There, for over three years and 1,300 performances, Life With Father has been playing...
When James Ensor was 19 he painted portraits from a palette like that of America's Albert Pinkham Ryder (then 32), two years later bourgeois interiors in the expressionistic manner of Jean Edouard Vuillard (then 14). At 29 Ensor painted a horse careening across a sky a la Marc Chagall (then 2). Fifty-four years ago Ensor scandalized even the most audacious art lovers with his Entry of Christ into Brussels. This canvas showed a vast crowd of leering men & women, one a skeleton, others with masks, around a hardly noticeable Christ, abject upon a mule...
...Edouard Herriot, three times Premier of France, was the last to speak for freedom as death came to Vichyfrance. Last week in a new roundup of former French leaders, the Nazis arrested eloquent, able Statesman Herriot. Their handcuffs gave bitter meaning to his pledge (TIME, Dec. 7): "I shall stay and suffer with my people...
...Riom to answer war-guilt charges dreamed up by Adolf Hitler. Instead they attacked the Vichy regime, praised General Charles de Gaulle. Delicate, scholarly, 70-year-old onetime Premier Léon Blum raised his grey head proudly and accused his accusers of rank mockery. Cried onetime Premier Edouard Daladier: "We shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed...
...leading statesmen of the Third Republic, only solid, 70-year-old Edouard Herriot remained in France. He was too popular to touch yet. On at least one occasion the Fighting French arranged an escape for Herriot, but he refused to leave his country. Said he: "I shall stay and suffer with my people...