Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is more than good direction. There are excellent performances by Jean Gabin as the deserting soldier; Michele Morgan as his wide-eyed mistress; and particularly Michele Simon as the pathological toy-merchant who kills and mutilates because of an unnatural love for his ward. In addition, there is an outstanding gallery of minor characters--each strikingly delineated and yet kept in proportion...
Died. George Jean ("Big Frenchy") De Mange, 47, cagey onetime hoodlum, highjacker and bootlegger, latterly a millionaire Broadway restaurateur (The Club Argonaut, Park Avenue. Silver Slipper); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a Hudson Duster, Big Frenchy early opposed British-born Owen ("Owney") Madden's Gophers, later joined Owney in the liquor racket. In 1931 Owney scraped up $35,000 to ransom Big Frenchy when itchy-fingered Vincent Coll kidnapped him and threatened his life. Last week Owney was chief mourner at Big Frenchy's funeral, complete with six cars dripping with flowers...
Lully: Orchestral Excerpts from the Operas "Prosperine," "Atys," "Amadis," "Thesee" (Symphony orchestra conducted by Maurice Cauchie; Columbia: 4 sides). Father of French opera was Jean Baptiste Lully, who tailored stage performances for paunchy Louis XIV. Lully's operas are now as dated as snuff and ruffles. But the sunny, melodious music he wrote for them is still as fresh as an enameled daisy...
...Information this week was jampacked with authors of bestsellers, turning out communiques of cadenced sentences and well-chosen phrases. Handling world-wide radio broadcasts was heavy, bespectacled, sentimental Georges Duhamel, author of The Pasquier Chronicles (TIME, March 21, 1938). In a small office not far from that of Director Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux sat thin, grey-haired Andre Maurois (Ariel, Byron, Disraeli), charged with explaining the value of French culture to the world. In London sat tall, impassive, witty Paul Morand (Open All Night, Closed All Night), professional diplomat acting as liaison officer between the British Ministry of Economic Warfare...
John Harvey Bass, Jr., Joseph William Bex, Edwin Elberg Boysen, Curtis Antrim Bush, John Richard Christian, William West Cleveland, Jean England deValpine, George Worth Fowler Jr., John Sells Graettinger, John Peasise Graves, John Francis Harvey, James Sloane Higgins, Kenneth Day Johanson, Eugene Parr Johnson, Paul Sigurd Johrde, Walter Scott Long, Jr., Donald Frank McDonald, Thomas Herbert Malim, David Martin, Robert Glenn Martin, Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Robert Earl Middleton, Frank Gustavus Miller, Maynard Malcolm Miller, Duane Keith Ocheltree, Harold Clarence Passer, Dick S. Payne, Donald MacKonzie Pitcairn, Ralph Hubert Potter, James Allan Rafferty, Thomas Ben Ragland, Jr., Andrew Eliot Rice...