Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the belief of the Paris press and police, 22-year-old Jean De Koven was neither a night-club dancer nor a chorus girl, but a student of ballet whose only professional appearance was as a child dancer with a road company of The Miracle. With her aunt, Miss Ida Sackheim of Brooklyn, she arrived in Paris on July 19. A few days later Jean De Koven was picked up in the lobby of the Hotel des Ambassadeurs by a young man known only as "Bobby," who spoke English with a strong German accent. Jean De Koven made...
Despite ransom messages and mysterious telephone calls, despite the appearance of several of Jean De Koven's traveler's checks, obviously forged, the French police stubbornly refused to believe that a kidnapping could occur in present-day France. Petit Parisien headlined its story: "American Dancer Runs Away and Tries to Extort Money from Aunt." French police were not entirely remiss, however. The mysterious Bobby was suspected of being an habitue of the Pavilion Bleu at St. Cloud. Night & day detectives watched the Pavilion Bleu, abandoned their vigil only when wreckers arrived and tore it down...
...police station he began confessing. Yes, he had shot Frommer (whose cigarette lighter he was using) and Lesobre (whose car he was driving), but when confronted with the blue folder of Jean De Koven's traveler's checks, he suddenly burst into tears...
...going off by themselves to experiment with unusual plays. Typical is The Play Room Club, sponsored by Maxwell Anderson, Brock Pemberton et al. Planning to present five plays throughout the season, admitting only members and their guests, the club last week led off with The Infernal Machine by Jean Cocteau, adapted by Carl Wildman...
...psychoanalytic implications of the story and told it in modern language. To The Play Room audience Cocteau's attempt to make the legend significant in modern terms seemed so sincere that his anachronisms, his references to Theban nightclubs, and the sprinkling of slang did not sound forced. Jean Cocteau, once called "the most charming young man in Paris," has always been a good showman. He has frequently set Paris on her ear with his expressionistic ballets. His surrealist film, The Blood of a Poet, produced visceral chills wherever it was jeered or cheered. His pictures drawn under the influence...