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Frenchman Jacques le Moyne and Englishman John White returned with watercolors to inspire stay-at-homes. A Fleming named Theodore de Bry engraved their paintings in 1590-91. Now all but one of Le Moyne's originals have been lost, and only the engravings remain...
...Le Moyne was sent with the Huguenots who settled on the South Carolina coast in 1564, and was told to map and paint what he saw. A Spanish expedition wiped out the colony within a year, but Le Moyne escaped to a French ship, with a portfolio full of fastidiously painted reports. Among them: a sunrise sacrifice of a stuffed and garlanded stag, a huddle of Indian widows mourning before their king Outina and begging permission to marry again, and an exaggerated painting of an alligator hunt which might have given Europeans the idea that dragons abounded in America...
Last week's production was frequently sharp theater, but was thrown badly off center by Actor Jory's failure to make Borkman either the dominating or the large-dimensioned figure he should be. His Borkman was much too hollowly histrionic, too ostentatiously "tragic." It was Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster, as the two sisters, who did most to pace the play...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Haydn's C Minor Symphony, No. 95, Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, Prokofiev's Suite from the ballet Chout. Conductor: Richard Burgin...
Attempting-and persisting in-production of such a pretentious movie, while the Nazis strutted through Pathé's Joinville studio, was the amazing accomplishment of France's smoothest movie team: small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and tousled Writer Jacques Preévert (Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se Léve). U.S. moviegoers, unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from...