Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schoolboys who retain from their history books an image of a pale, young Napoleon seizing the tricolor at the Battle of Arcole know the work of Baron Antoine Jean Gros. A pupil of David, the court painter and classicist, Gros took the field after he met Bonaparte at Milan and accompanied his army during the first Italian campaign. Charged by the Emperor with the duty of selecting artistic booty, he is responsible for the nucleus of the Louvre's vast treasury. Little known in the U. S., Gros was represented last week at Knoedler's by 17 pictures...
Rudolph Valentino in all his romantic glory; the Jean Hersholt, the Alan Hale, and the Wallace Beery of another day--all these familiar or renowned figures presented themselves to 700 members of the Film Society who attended the showing of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" at the New Lecture Hall last night...
...anti-Fascist campaign in the daily Epoque. Last week he avowed: "It's true I've taken more digs at Left politicians but that's because they are so much funnier to draw." Patent-leather smooth, dark, fat, affable J. Sennep's real name is Jean-Jacques Charles Pennes. One brother, General Roger Pennes, is a bigwig in the Air Ministry. After serving through the War in the infantry, Jean Pennes went to work for the Royalist Action Francaise, was first assigned to cover Communist meetings at Garches, ten and a half miles outside of Paris...
Ballerina (Pathe Joinville-Cinatlantica). Brilliant cinema treatment by French Director Jean Benoit-Levy (La Maternelle) of La Mart du Cygne, Paul Morand's story about the backstage life of apprentice ballet dancers...
...years reserved, Harvard-bred New York Times Critic J. Brooks Atkinson wrote reviews as sober and dignified as a Times editorial. Atkinson left the pun-making and funmaking to such colleagues of those days as Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott, Percy Hammond, George Jean Nathan...