Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Owner Ralph McCutcheon about $500,000 in eight years. His Fury fee: $1,500 a show. A saddlebred, eleven-year-old stallion standing 15 lands high, Fury has borne some of Hollywood's most famous bodies. He carried Elizabeth Taylor in Giant, Clark jable in Lone Star and Joan Crawford n Johnny Guitar...
...that house makes me regard it as a terrestrial paradise." The philosopher-lovers enlisted the whole village for amateur theatricals, went for picnics "followed by a second carriage full of books." Guests were regaled with readings from Voltaire's embattled works (especially La Pucelle, his scandalous extravaganza on Joan of Arc) and hastened back to Versailles to repeat everything they could remember...
...Frank Ashley for his lively #12 Adler (see color page): Manhattan's Louis Bouché for his quiet Still Life with Blocks; Westchester County's Edmond Fitzgerald for his ashcan-ish My Studio; Manhattan's Sidney Gross for his abstract Promontory; Brooklyn's Joan Starwood for her abstract Fugue in Blue-Green; and Manhattan's Erne Joseph for his abstract Intersectional. The sculpture winners: Peter Abate of Brookline, Mass, for. his tamely symbolic marble Beginning of Life; Arnold Geissbuhler of Manhattan for a bronze Bird, whose cock's crow hauntingly echoes the earlier work...
...Lesson, a mad professor harangues and finally kills an odd, 17-year-old student (played as winningly by Joan Plowright as she plays the 94-year-old wife in The Chairs). The play perhaps symbolizes how pedantry destroys individuality, but like so much anti-academic satire, runs to academic jokes. Ionesco's seems an agreeable but thin talent, with a kind of philosophic-puppet show appeal...
...face, like a pile of dead leaves. Deborah Kerr provides one transcendent scene in which, as she overhears her man with another woman, her prim, pretty English face breaks up like a cooky in the fingers of a child. And Jean Seberg, rebounding from her disastrous debut as Joan of Arc (TIME, July 1), blooms with just the right suggestion of unhealthy freshness, a cemetery flower...