Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marble Cliffs (published in Germany in 1939), in which, under a cunning mythological disguise, a talented former disciple of Hitler had denounced the Führer and all his works. In World Without Visa, a story of Marseille under the Vichy regime, France's Jean Malaquais wrote. perhaps the year's best political novel...
...Send me cigars-they are my food," Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius had said. This week, U.S. admirers had sent him 83 boxes of cigars (plus two humidors) for his 83rd birthday. Among the donors: Tallulah Bankhead, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Carmen Miranda, Thomas J. Watson, Sergei Koussevitzky, Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett. Said a spokesman for the National Arts Foundation, which is handling the collection: "We intend to keep Sibelius in cigars for life...
...Gloves (adapted from the French of Jean-Paul Sartre by Daniel Taradash; produced by Jean Dalrymple) reached Broadway figuratively picketed by the man who wrote it. Sartre had, on hearsay, denounced the U.S. version as a "vulgar, common melodrama with an anti-Communist bias" (TIME, Dec. 6). Though he might justly complain of a translation and a production that (except for Charles Beyer's brilliant acting) are pretty wooden, Red Gloves itself seems pretty typical Sartre...
...play, which will be produced some time in the spring, is by Jean Anouilles, a modern French playwright famous for his version of "Antignone." Roles are not limited to members of the club, George Vicas, president, said last night...
Butler believed that he was by nature a painter, spent years turning out mediocre canvases and damning art critics who had never heard of the "great" artist (a 16th Century Fleming named Jean de Wespin, alias Giovanni Tabachetti). He composed minuets, gavottes and fugues in the manner of Germany's Handel. He translated the Iliad and the-Odyssey into a breezy English that made the dons wince ("Calypso trembled with rage when she heard this. 'You gods,' she exclaimed, 'ought to be ashamed of yourselves' "), then added insult to injury by claiming that the "Homer...