Word: henry
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HENRI TEMIANKA...
...illustrating the everyday life around him. Born in Philadelphia in 1870, he studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy, became a newspaper artist, along with George Luks, John Sloan and Everett Shinn, for the Philadelphia Press and later the New York World. Afterhours, the group congregated around Painter Robert Henri, trying to match the dark brown tints of old masters like Frans Hals and recent ones like Manet...
...comrades and lover as they go out to be tortured, and then flees. Of the others, one Sorbier (Dominic Meiman) commits suicide rather than talk, and a young boy (Edward Jay) is killed by his fellows rather than be permitted to talk. The three others in the cage, Henri (Daniel Deitch), Lucic (Kathryn Walker), and Canoris (John Appleby), endure torture, deliver a false confession to be set free, and then are killed at the whim of a Vichy officer...
Babe's cast sustains this intensity except where Sartre's shoddy dramatization makes it impossible. Deitch as the cynical, frankly self-centered, intellectual Henri is magnificent. His swagger is far more powerful as potential than as actuality. A painfully trapped man, he smashes into walls and writhes futilely when tied to a chair of torture...
Filed for probate in Manhattan, the will of the late Elizabeth N. Graham, better known as Elizabeth Arden, disposed of an estate valued at some $50 million by settling $2,000,000 on a niece, Mrs. Patricia Graham Young; $4,000,000 on her sister, Vicomtesse Henri de Maublanc; $1,000,000 on a nephew, John B. Graham; and a total of $3,000,000 on maids, chauffeurs and some 200 employees in her beauty empire. The principal beneficiaries: New York State and the U.S. Government, which will take approximately $39 million in estate taxes...