Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S. Bandleader Joe Castor and his Hollywood Mocambo orchestra. The raven-haired lass, one Dolly Strayhorn, was plain butterfingered. Shortly after the orchestra wound up its two-week Palladium stand, Rings was awestruck to learn that Pianist Strayhorn was none other than Tobacco Heiress Doris ("Richest girl in the world") Duke, artfully slumming it, black wig and all, as a working girl...
...fairy story dramatized by Jean Giraudoux and adapted by Maurice Valency, Ondine is a prime and welcome example of the variety possible on the stage. Unlike T.S. Eliot, Giraudoux does not couch his parable in obscurity, but is quite willing to spell out the point of the play: that man must accept and respect human limitations. When exposed to superhuman love and devotion-like that of the water sprite ondine-even a knight errant finds that his shining armor becomes rusty. He is neither worthy nor capable of returning complete love. Having only this simple "message" to comprehend, the playgoer...
...HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF (426 pp.) -Jean Giono-Knopf...
...begins the latest problem novel by France's Jean Giono. For dust-jacket purposes, it may be described as the stirring adventures of a young Italian officer making his way home through the south of France during the terrible 1838 epi demic of Asiatic cholera. But at bottom, it is not a costume novel at all; it is a new appraisal of an ancient subject -human mortality. Death, and the behavior of people in the face of death, make its subject matter, but its main question is: How should man behave, ideally, when confronted by his oldest, most ruthless...
Much of this view of life and death is as old as the Stoics and as new as the Existentialists. Where Jean Giono differs from both Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre is in his addiction to verbal color and sensuous imagery. The Horseman on the Roof is an orgy of symbolic corpses, stinks, carrion crows and flesh-eating nightingales, interspersed with involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear...