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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What the public had to see were 138 fairly large canvases and water colors by twelve artists in which there appeared, in brilliant color, circles, triangles, prisms, ruled lines, odd squiggles and amorphous blobs of paint. There were in addition 60 paintings by near abstractionists such as Modigliani, Picasso, Marc Chagall and the Impressionist Seurat, in which could be discovered such recognizable objects as cats, boats, bowls of fruit, doorways and French peasant women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Non-Objects | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...cottage, and at last, because it seemed the natural thing to do. she let him take her husband's place. Then the German went to the trenches to be killed, and when Fannie bore his baby the village was willing to let her starve. Jean's brother Marc, a stalwart priest, got his atheist friend Gaure, a chemistry professor, to help him rig up a homemade wireless, to get news of the outside world. Before they knew it, both were involved in a far-flung spy system. Gaure was caught, tortured, shot. Later on Marc was arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Front | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...bald Marc Rucart, onetime journalist, now Minister of Justice in the Blum Cabinet, had an important announcement for humanitarians throughout the world last week. After months of private discussion the new Left Wing French Cabinet was about to correct a longstanding evil. The penal colony in French Guiana, that "abscess on the body colonial," will progressively be abolished. Within a few months, a mixed commission from the Ministries of Colonies and Justice will be sent to Guiana to recommend the details. Until the present Paris scheme matures, no more convicts will be sent out to rot in the tropics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abscess Abolished | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Guiana and the plight of its jungle-bound, fever-ridden convicts has never diminished. To novelists and cinema producers it has been a boon.* Agitation for the abolition of the penal colony has steadily grown in France. Succeeding Ministers of Justice have always spiked the move, but Minister Marc Rucart is one French Minister of Justice who has actually seen the colony. Years ago he went out as a member of a Salvation Army junket, returned convinced that the prison colony was not only a stain on French prestige and a heavy check on the development of Guiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abscess Abolished | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...director, saw her in a street cafe, addressed a soft remark to her. She slapped his face. Impressed, he tested her, cast her as Pierrette in Chanteur Inconnu opposite Opera Singer Lucien Muratore. She made Le Roi des Palaces for Adolphe Osso and La Petite Chocolatière for Marc Allegret, both comedy roles, got her first serious casting as elflike Puck in Lac aux Dames. Arthur Willnetz, a man ager, introduced her to Sacha Guitry, who gave her a part in O Mon Bel Inconnu. Publicized as "La Sauvage Tendre," she was mobbed by a crowd at a personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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