Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French Poet-Playwright Jean ("Bird-catcher") Cocteau has long been an opium smoker, makes no apology for his vice, once wrote a book about it, regards it as an interesting part of the most interesting personality he knows. When the French police, who had always looked the other way, arrested France's Public Opium Smoker No.1 on charges of opium smoking last summer, wealthy French Elégants suspected that M. Cocteau had got in the habit of giving it to his friends among the poor-sailors, waiters, etc., on whom the authorities, for fear they might turn...
Married. Carl Van Doren, 53, bang-haired literary critic, author (Benjamin Franklin); and Jean Wright Gorman, 38-year-old Manhattanite; both for the second time; in San Francisco...
...Jean Sibelius has finished his eighth symphony (in his boulder-like head; it is not yet completely written down). From Brahms's massive skull came four symphonies, from Tchaikovsky's high crown six, from Beethoven's shaggy pate nine. Mozart's wonderfully broad forehead gave out no less than 41. But when tough old Joseph ("Papa'') Haydn sat down at the age of 72 to catalogue his works, he could shake his egg-shaped head till it nearly cracked, but he could not for the life of him remember all those nice symphonies...
...modernist who has ever been near Paris has taken a few lessons from her. Last week Teacher Boulanger took her prize pupil to Manhattan, there led the Philharmonic-Symphony in accompaniment while he played his best-known composition. The pupil: a slight, dark-haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded four months ago by Victor (TIME, Nov. 7). Manhattanites were not impressed by Pundit Boulanger's claims that Composer Frangaix was "a genius," but they found his concerto an agreeable, earsome knickknack...
Harvard, supporting the negative, was represented by F. Welch Peel '39 and Ward M. Hussey '40. Vassar was represented by the Misses Gerry Gewirtz and Jean Symmes, while the judges were: Miss Eicanor S. Davies, Miss Kathleen Deady, president of the senior class at Radcliffe, and Mr. C. E. Allen, dean of the River School...