Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monte Carlo's summer season reached a social crescendo with an anti-polio March of Francs party featuring two hours of husky-throated songs by Marlene Dietrich. But Marlene seemed almost an anticlimax to Poet Jean Cocteau's freshly penned introduction, eloquently recited by French Cinemactor Jean Marais: "Your name begins with a caress and ends with a whiplash. You wear feathers and furs which seem to be part of your body like the furs of beasts and the feathers of birds . . . There comes to us, in full sail, a frigate, a prow's figurehead, a Chinese...
...complex world of French journalism, ownership of newspapers and magazines is often a closely guarded secret and political pasts something many publishers would rather not discuss. No one is more mysterious about his past or surer of his present than aging (69), aloof Jean Prou-vost, whose LIFE-like picture weekly, Paris-Match (circ. 1,160,000), is one of the biggest magazines on the Continent, and who also holds financial control of the conservative, respected Figaro (circ. 499-200), oldest daily in France. Among French newsmen and politicos. Publisher Prouvost has been called everything from the "obscene corrupter...
...Pharaoh's favor, the soldier aspires to the hand of the Pharaoh's sister (Gene Tierney), but the young physician cannot heal himself of his lust for a whore of Babylon (Bella Darvi). In time, Sinuhe is cured by the love of a servant girl (Jean Simmons...
...easily applied foundation grease. Soon such stars as Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford and Clara Bow were wearing Factor makeup off the movie lots, and U.S. women, who had previously thought that any makeup made them look "fast," started clamoring for the natural-looking powder and rouge. When Jean Harlow suddenly became a platinum blonde, Max Factor was ready with the bleach to help thousands follow suit. By the '30s, scores of Hollywood pictures carried the Max Factor name in their credits. Biggest single order: 600 gallons of body paint for the bronze-skinned characters...
...next outburst came in the oil town of Petit jean (pop. 70,000). The rumor (entirely false) had got about that Ben Youssef had escaped from Madagascar and was on his way home. A mob collected, and in half-patriotic, half-religious frenzy, turned on Jewish shopkeepers, killing six and burning their bodies...