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...rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, retired soon after World War I. He died in bed during the Nazi occupation of Paris, but not before he had given his impressions of Van Gogh to a literary friend, who compiled them for the French Communist weekly, Les Lettres Françaises...
...intricate, formal combat in Michigan State College's Jenison Field House seemed a far cry from the back-alley swordplay of François Villon or the duels-to-the-death of the Three Musketeers. The 20th-century field of honor was limited to the narrow boundaries of a long rubber mat, leaving little room for spectacular derring-do. Four judges and a director hovered around each bout to call the touches and check on fencing protocol. The undergraduates who crossed blades in the National Collegiate Fencing Championships last week could be sure no opponent would blind them with...
...Paris, where the Folies-Bergère ladies wear no blouses and streetwalkers are a major traffic menace, the puritanical elders of the famed Comédie-Française banned a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, George Bernard Shaw's play about a British prostitute who at least solicited business in private. Rubbing more salt into the wounded realism of France's Shaworshippers, the Comédieans proclaimed that Mrs. Warren was "amoral," and her saga was "very bad and boring...
...fiction, plan to go in for biography on an industrial scale. Forty biographicals (with plenty of box-office angles) are currently in the works, ranging from a close look at Moses to a better one at Lady Godiva. Other subjects: Van Gogh, Charles Lindbergh, Theda Bara, François Villon, Omar Khayyam ("The Loves of") and Jimmy Walker, the late mayor of New York City...
...Lion. If Scott drew on his tradition, his greatest disciple created the most popular works in igth Century French literature by sheer personal exuberance. The son of an illegitimate mulatto general from Santo Domingo, Dumas crashed the august Comédie Française with a rip-roaring historical drama, Henri III and His Court, and became the kinky-maned lion of Paris...