Word: giraudoux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, Mollet settled on a Cabinet, giving Mendès the job of Deputy Premier without portfolio (instead of Foreign Minister, which Mendes desired). For Foreign Minister he reached instead into his own party for Good European Christian Pineau. 51, stepson of Playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot) Giraudoux and himself an author of children's fairy stories. Mollet spurned the Communist support proffered ("Let no one think that I'm the man to prepare the future of Popular Front . . . I will never lead my party to suicide"), but seemed fated to get it anyway. Ultimately, said Communist...
...best Broadway season in years-with Shakespeare. Marlowe, Giraudoux, Anouilh and Wilder on the boards; with Julie Harris, Shirley Booth, Ruth Gordon, Shelley Winters, Nancy Walker, Gwen Verdon on the scene; and more hits around than theaters to hold them-one of the most dazzling events is the performance in The Diary of Anne Frank of 17-year-old Susan Strasberg (TIME, Oct. 17). Susan got an actress's recognition last week when her name went up in lights a foot high above the title of the show, and she became the youngest dramatic star ever to shine...
Died. Bernard Grasset, 74, onetime topflight French book publisher (Giraudoux, Maurois, Mauriac) who was paid by Marcel Proust to print Swann's Way in 1913, after Proust had looked in vain for a publisher; after long illness; in Paris. Convicted in 1948 of collaboration with the Nazis, Grasset was fined 10,000 francs, sentenced to "national degradation for life...
...difficulty of cursing well, little broadsides on a bard's-eye view of war. If in some sense a protest against war, the play is much more a lament for war's seeming inevitability. Like all masters of humane irony, all practitioners of philosophic high comedy, Giraudoux pierces to a tragic fundamental, to a world never long enough governed by logic, or spurred on by truth, or saved by virtue. His own dazzling speeches, moreover, ram home how inflammatory or mendacious words...
...between such differing masters of dialectics and irony, there is something poignant and lyrical (because more pessimistic) in Giraudoux that is not found in Shaw. Yet here the two men touch, for Shaw wrote a kind of Tiger at the Gates in Caesar and Cleopatra. Each man saw worlds about to overturn through a queen's lure; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Hector, the great warrior is the great hater of war; in Shaw's Caesar as in Giraudoux's Ulysses, the wise man sadly grasps the impotence of wisdom. And both...