Word: goudeket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CLOSE TO COLETTE (245 pp.)-Maurice Goudeket-Farrar Straus & Cudahy...
Died. Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Co lette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvenel Goudeket (Colette), 81, called by Poet Paul Claudel "the greatest living writer in France" (Cheri, Gigi); of a heart ailment; in Paris. At 20, Colette married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a potboiling hack who won fame by publishing under his own name the novels he forced her to turn out, in turn did much to teach her a style as ruthlessly chaste as her heroines were unchaste. Colette depicted quietly desperate women in love and in bed, became the most honored female writer in France's history, first woman president...
That afternoon a startled young actress listened in saucer-eyed wonder as M. Maurice Goudeket explained that his wife, the great Colette, had personally picked her to play the lead in a Broadway play. A few weeks later, after an expensive exchange of cablegrams and consultations with Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller, Author Loos herself flew to London to confirm Colette's judgment. "I tried to explain to all of them that I wasn't ready to do a lead," said Audrey in New York last week, "but they didn't agree, and I certainly wasn...
...with inked-on whiskers," a seductive charmer making a grand entry "with what appears to be a real peacock tail." Colette left the stage to marry a distinguished politician and journalist, Henri de Jouvenel. They were divorced, and in 1935 she married her present husband, a journalist named Maurice Goudeket. But she never stopped writing. By 1919, Marcel Proust himself was shedding tears over her love story of World War I, Mitsou. In 1920 the great Gide breathlessly read Chert at a sitting, declared it had "not one weakness, not one redundancy, nothing commonplace...