Word: jeux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will try to get a conference in the shortest possible time on all the outstanding questions capable of solution. [But] the only choice we can make is to ratify first and negotiate later ... Let us tear out from our hearts this fear and doubt!" Faure stepped down, muttered: "Les jeux sont faits" the croupier's classic cry that all bets are down...
...after the opening sequence. But for all its symbolic overtones, it is no stiff, self-conscious allegory. It has a biting vitality and, at times, a macabre humor. The direction of René Clément, who adapted the story from François Boyer's 1950 novel Jeux Interdits, is as exact as a machine; it also has a brooding, dreamlike quality. Making their debuts as the two juvenile leads, blonde, fragile Brigitte Fossey and sturdy little Georges Poujouly are small, haunting figures, moving through a strange, sardonic tale of death that cries out at the same time...
Monteux was born April 4, 1875, and studied at the Paris Conservatory. In 1911, as conductor of the Diaghilev Russian Ballet he introduced for the first time Igor Stravinsky's "Petrouchka," "Sacre du Printemps," and "Rossignol," Maurice Ravel's "Daphnis et Chioe," and Claude Debussy's "Jeux...
...musical program began with "Concerto Per Due Pianoforti Soli," by Stravinsky. It was followed by songs by Berlioz, and by excerpts from "Lea Jeux d'Enfants," by Bizet. Assisting artists were: Patricia Neway, mezzo-soprano, Arthur Gold, pianist, Robert Fizdale, pianist, and John La Montaine, accompanist...
...crowd stood Pierre Mac Orlan, painter, novelist, .and youngest (67) member of the academy, who, by tradition, must announce the winner. Slowly Mac Orlan came down the steps, pushed his way to the microphone. Said he: "The Prix Goncourt for 1950 goes to Paul Colin for his novel Les jeux sauvages...