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First on the bill was Le Pauvre Matelot (The Poor Sailor). Darius Milhaud, a member of the French modernist Group of Six, wrote it to a poem by Jean Cocteau. After its world premiere in Paris nine years ago, the opera was seldom put on. Many at the U. S. premiere last week, listening to the puzzled, formless music, thought they could tell why. Others were impressed by the vivid passages of declamation, the odd, unpleasant story of a woman who murdered her husband unbeknown...
...Count Jean de Chambrun, nephew of the wounded Count Charles de Chambrun and cousin of Count Rene de Chambrun (see above), ran down and killed one Henri Lorfelin & wife, parents of 19 children, at Dieppe, France...
...Saturday evening. A chorus of 130 will render seven selections. The Principal one will be "Tarantella; Mater, Ades", from Ovid's "Fasti", by Elliott Carter '30. This will be the first time that it has ever been performed. Other selections include part of Schubert's "Valses Nobles", "Of Doming Jean Christe" by Josquin des Pres, and the first American performance of "Two Religious songs", by a Spanlarn, Antonio do Cahezon...
History Is Made At Night (United Artists) is not historical, only faintly nocturnal. It is a gusty romantic divertissement hand-tailored by Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker to fit the talents of its three principal players, Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur and Leo Carrillo. Its purpose is entertainment and it achieves its end. Its importance, cinematically, is due largely to a shipwreck sequence which takes rank with the famed earthquake in San Francisco...
...favorite pastime of Steamship Magnate Bruce Vail (Colin Clive) is tormenting his wife (Jean Arthur). When she threatens to put an end to his diversion by divorce, he sends his chauffeur (Ivan Lebedeff) to her rooms, plans to trap her in the servant's arms, nullifying the divorce under the English statute that the complainant in such a suit must remain blameless during the six months between the provisional and final decrees. In the next room Paul Dumond (Charles Boyer) hears the fracas, ends it by knocking out the chauffeur. When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond...