Word: fernande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mating instinct at play in a Vienna that was turning the century without a break in its giddy stride. Director Max (Letter to an Unknown Woman) Ophuls has lovingly put together this wry ode to love, and brightened it with a galaxy of Continental stars: Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Simone Simon, Gerard Philipe, Simone Signoret, Isa Miranda...
...Show (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead, with Joan Fontaine, Fred Allen, Josephine Baker, Gracie Fields, George Sanders, William Gargan, Fernand Gravet...
Britain's King one day last week visited the Royal Academy's show of modern French art, accompanied by France's Ambassador, Rene Massigli. When the royal party reached a huge abstract painting by Fernand Leger called La Noce (The Wedding), King George stopped. For a moment the King gazed at the strange melee of human figures squeezed into cubist shapes, then turned to the Ambassador. "What is it?" he asked. "The Schuman Plan...
...annual convention of the American National Cattlemen's Association, meeting in San Francisco last week, came out flatly against both price controls and subsidies for meat. Reason: they diminish production and kill initiative. Said Executive Secretary Fernand E. Mollin: "[They] would do what they did in the last war, drive meat out of the market and leave nothing but pigs' knuckles...
Stripped but Appreciated. Considering that Calder's Paris friends included the abstractionists Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and Piet Mondrian, it is not surprising that he soon stripped his circus of recognizable features, while constantly complicating and improving its visual qualities. In the end, he created one of the most amusing sideshows of modern art, lodged samples of it in half a dozen leading museums...