Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the R.A.F. tried what it had rejected. Ninety-four Lancaster four-motored planes bombed the Schneider-Creusot gun works (chief works of the famed French trust & munitions cartel) and the Henri Paul power plant in daylight. There was no fighter protection. Only one bomber failed to return...
...show, held at Manhattan's Pierre Matisse Gallery (owned by the son of Painter Henri Matisse), contained 16 canvases. First impression of so much Chagall in one room was like falling through space closely pursued by open cans of the three primary colors. Gradually the chromatic confusion resolved itself into nine paintings of Russian village life in Unoccupied France (painted after the Nazi invasion); three scenes of Russian village life in Connecticut (painted since Chagall's arrival in the U.S. last year); one scene of Russian village life in Russia; and one study...
Shape of the world's second-best-known mustache, said Charles Spencer Chaplin, will be changed for the first time in more than 20 years of picturemaking. The new model will be a delicate Gallic affair to fit a cinesatire on Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard. Wendell Willkie, back home in Rushville (see p. 20), eagerly looked forward to his first haircut since Cairo, 6,500 miles, six weeks back. From Vichy came an eye-catching picture of dapper Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affaires, his smart new wife, Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, her hat -a full-fashioned...
...tried a super-duper advertising campaign to sell 85-year-old Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain to every Frenchman. Two hundred experts set up shop in the government hotel in Vichy. Men of art and literature went to work. The Marshal's profile, slogans and symbols appeared on stamps, china, ash trays, badges, hatbands, blotters, coins, bijoux and shaving mugs. A francisc, the Marshal's Frankish emblem, adorned all official documents. The Marshal's colors and cheerful slogans about healthy children appeared on milk bottles. Frenchmen wryly remembered World War I, when the Kaiser...
Married. Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux (The Virgin Bride, The Art of Love, Mayerling); and Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affairs in Vichy; both for the second time; in Vichy. Her first was French Cinedirector Henri Decoin; Rubirosa's first was Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the President of the Dominican Republic...