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...first exhibition in Paris in 1932, Calder asked artist friend Marcel Duchamp what he should call the new moving metal sculpture. Duchamp replied, "Mobiles." In the twenty three years since, "Mobiles" have all but replaced chandeliers, and their originator has become the first native American sculptor to win international recognition...
Five years ago, in the justified belief that courtesy had become a lost art in the land of the Chevalier Bayard and the Watteau shepherdess, French Psychologist Marcel Ranville organized a new order of French chivalry. L'Ordre de la Courtoisie Française. "Amiability," complained Ranville, "has given way to vulgarity and meanness." To restore the old politesse, Ranville invited the knights and ladies of the new order to pay dues ranging from 500 to 10,000 francs to be used to spread the gospel of good humor, love and fraternity. Some 2,500 adherents joined the cause...
...Most harpists in the U.S. are women, but the few men do pretty well: some are leading harpists in symphony orchestras, and the two top harp names are Juilliard's Marcel Grandjany and Salzedo himself...
...made history. It led to Manhattan's first independent show (no jury, no prizes) and paved the way for the 1913 Armory show, a landmark event that first gave the U.S. public the full impact of Europe's postimpressionist, fauve and cubist painters (sensation of the show: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...
...Drole de Dame, also called "Bizarre, Bizarre," Director Marcel Carne dashes across the scene on his bicycle, gaily splashing mud on every English social cliche available. The hypocrite vicar, upstart servants and Scotland Yard all are thrown in to comment on the pitifully high state of English morals. Carne wraps stolid England up in a ball with one final commentary--the man in a hanging-mob who holds his child's hand with the greatest of social responsibility...