Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris was witty, shocking Jean Cocteau's The Terrible Parents, whose plot involves sons cuckolding their fathers and other incest. When Cocteau offered free tickets to school children, the Paris Municipal Council ordered the theatre's lease canceled, thus closing the show. Cocteau, who calls himself "John the Bird-catcher," at once slapped a five-million-franc damage suit on the city of Paris, alleging his play has "great artistic merit" and insisting that it was left "to the discretion of the teachers to choose the pupils most worthy to profit by the offer of free tickets...
Engaged. Omero Cesere Catan, 24, Manhattan vacuum cleaner salesman, specialist in being first in line whenever a new bridge or tunnel is opened; to Jean Tobolka, 27, stenographer; in Manhattan; after getting the first Manhattan marriage license...
...current furore over "Grand Illusion," the film now playing at the Fine Arts, makes it fairly obvious that this is an excellent picture. Although it is no epoch-making production, Jean Renoir's slightly idealistic picture is certainly different from the movies produced in our Hollywood. On the average audience this differences has a great shock-effect, and it is this effect that is in turn misinterpreted as the stamp of a superior film...
Thus writes Henri Ghéon, pious French Roman Catholic, in the recently published Secret of the Cure d'Ars.* Far from used up is the Cure of Ars: he was canonized only 14 years ago as St. Jean Baptiste Vianney. During most of his lifetime (1786-1859) the priest of an obscure village near Lyon, the Curé of Ars is today by papal command a model for parish priests the world over. Since it takes more than mere goodness to make a saint, M. Vianney (as Hagiographer Ghéon for brevity calls him) is easier...
...Jean Sibelius (Sun. 1:30 p.m. NBC-Red, CBS, MBS). Finland's No. 1 composer conducts the Helsingfors Symphony. Finnish President Kyosti Kallio speaks in salute to New York's World's Fair by short wave from Finland...