Word: marcel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marcel Pagnol (Topaze, The Baker's Wife, Harvest) became the first cinema writer admitted to the august French Academy. At 52, he is a veritable child prodigy among the Academy's ancients. One of the ceremonial questions put to Pagnol, who makes his characters talk like characters: "Can you write French...
...With Jacques Brugnon (now non-playing) and Marcel Bernard, other oldtime French Davis Cuppers, to raise money for the rebuilding of Paris' bombed-out Stade de Coubertin, heart of French indoor tennis. It was inconveniently near the Renault factory...
...have designed both a moated desert mansion for Movie Director Josef von Sternberg and an elaborate system of low-cost schools and hospitals for Puerto Rico. Neutra's buildings are pondered and imitated (especially in technical details of construction) by architects around the world. Says noted French Architect Marcel Lods in L'Architecture : "[He] is already a classic and . . . will be more so tomorrow. Neutra offers us an infinitely precious message...
...their brave words and eager hands, the twelve had a lot of "mopping up" to do. Paris still had intractable citizens who liked to look at more recognizable pictures. After 5½ years in Manhattan, Painter Marcel Vertes had just returned to Paris to open a show of the pastel, boyish maidens who have long decorated the covers of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and sold Schiaparelli perfume in the U.S. A dozen gendarmes were needed to keep order at Vertes' opening, and all 50 of his agelessly sweet and sexy pictures sold out in a few hours...
With his cut of the gate ($20,000) and six stitches over his left eye, Marcel Cerdan headed back to spend Christmas with his family in Casablanca. He will return next year, for a probable chance at the middleweight title, and some more Yankee dollars...