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...other hand he was enthusiastic over the shots in which M. Jean Painleve was seen shepherding his cultures before the lens: "Mon cher Jean! You have a 'movie face'! A fig for your science! Mais le cinema! Ah le cinemast to reporters: "I certainly accepted the offer of my friend M. Sti.... Why not? My father has found time to lead two or three men's lives in the last few years.... Why should I not act for the cinemas, and yet continue my histological research...
...those who do not care a fig for his philosophy, then, there is plenty of good "theatre", plenty even of perpetual slap-stick farce in the scene in the reception room of the Fortune Teller, in the scene at the dress rehearsal in the theatre, in the hilarious dinner table scene in the hilarious dinner table scene in the boarding house and in the uproarious final carnival. The former director of the "Gay Theatre for Grown-Up Children" and of the so-called "Cracked Looking Glass" set the style for the free theatre which Meyer hold and others have carried...
...used to statues in frock coats and trousers that these struck them as brutal truth." He was commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal, a student marched in wearing the bronze fig leaf around his neck. He made a statue Venus, "an arrangement of planes and curves," also heroic -10 or 12 ft. high. It was exhibited...
...fig for their sorrow...
...pabulum for student minds. "There are", says Mr. Lane, "filthy books, salacious books, books corrupting in influence, which it is no part of the Library's duty to distribute to readers." Thus he lays claim to the right of censorship, to the right to deck Boccaccio and Ellis with fig leaves...