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...bald, bearded Frenchman hunched painfully over his writing table was feeling old, ill and a bit sorry for himself. Painter Paul Cézanne had studied hard, but had he learned, at 67, to paint intelligibly? Hardly anyone thought so. The old man scrawled the question once again. "Shall I ever reach the goal so eagerly sought and so long pursued?" he wrote. "A vague feeling of discomfort persists which will not disappear until I shall have gained the harbor, that is, until I shall have accomplished something more promising than what has gone before...
...Madison Square Garden, it was an even pleasanter affair for another Frenchman...
Sheep in the Cemetery. This year, newsmen found the 656 tattered Polynesian survivors (there were also nine Chilean officials, two Englishmen, one Frenchman) living in one coastal village. The British company's 60,000 sheep grazed in the shadow of the ancient monoliths. The annual wool-clip alone was worth around $150,000. Ojeda demanded that Chile develop the island itself. Other Santiago papers took...
Elliot Paul, in The Last Time I Saw Paris, says of Les Soeurs Marx: "To American readers this requires a word of explanation. Little Women, translated directly into French as Petites Femmes, would have a meaning which would have distressed Louisa May, of Concord, Mass. The Frenchman of the street confused the name 'March' (the family name of Miss Alcott's Little Women) with Marx, made famous in France as elsewhere by the inimitable Groucho, Harpo and Chico. So Little Women was named The Marx Sisters, and was believed by many purchasers, who were later disappointed...
Debussy: Preludes, Book II (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 12 sides); Pour le Piano Suite and Danse (Gaby Casadesus, pianist; Vox, 4 sides); Milhaud: Le Bal Martiniquais (Robert and Gaby Casadesus, duo-pianists; Columbia, 2 sides). Husband & wife take turns working over the iridescent music of a fellow Frenchman. Robert's album is deeper and moodier; Gaby plays more lightly-turned caprices. Their joint record is light, witty...