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...played no favorites; everyone got the same painstaking effort. The only favoritism he allowed himself was in the works he chose for his country home outside Paris and the figures lining his tiny gallery at Malakoff. There he collected such masterpieces as Maillol's Summer, Renoir's Laundress, Bourdelle's Heracles Archer, Rodin's John the Baptist. About 20 years ago, he cast a beautiful bronze of Rodin's L'Ombre, and ordered it set aside to mark his grave when he dies...
...second section, which included a laundress, the school teacher, "A Woman of Virtue," and a Jewess who discussed the Dreyfus affair, was generally better. Especially outstanding was Miss Skinner's teacher, a rare combination of humor and pathos which was carried off with great skill and understanding...
...Paris' Rue de la Huchette, which he pictured so tenderly in The Last Time I Saw Paris. About one-third of the 1,500 people who lived on the street in the early '30s were still there, he reported. Oldtimers included Mme. Frémont, the laundress, Taxidermist Noël and the chestnut vendor. The traffic was the same as 20 years ago, said Paul-it was a marvel anybody was alive...
...Safe Faces. Such restrictions limit stories almost entirely to three types: 1) a wife's (or husband's, or sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...
That done, the Met and the Modern got down to the serious business of swapping some of their incongruities. First to cross the border was to be Daumier's Laundress. It was now 86 years old, and an obvious "classic"; the Modern would turn it over to the Met. In exchange the Met would deliver Maillol's bronze Chained Action and Picasso's 1906 Portrait of Gertrude Stein, which Gertrude had hopefully willed to the Met (TIME...