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Deciding that "psychology is not everything," Ray moved to Paris, was cheerfully painting a still life of flowers the day Hitler arrived. Ray managed to escape on a freighter, along with Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp, arrived in Manhattan in 1942. Soon after, Ray found his paintings turning into abstractions, called on Duchamp for advice. The result: Duchamp arranged a show for Ray at Peggy Guggenheim's avant-garde gallery. Since then, Ray has lingered longer and longer over each canvas; his finished pictures with all layers dried out often weigh...
Alain Cluny and Arletty are delightfully evil as the envoys, and Jacques Prevet's script and Marcel carne's direction make Cluny's defection from the diabolic cause later in the Picture seem natural enough-although the viewer may at first be left wondering if this is not just another evil ruse. Satan himself, played by Jules Berry, enters the feudal scene with gusto, elegant clothes, and a most attractive cackle of glee that make his part something out of the ordinary. His expert dematerializations are more to the credit of the cameraman...
Marie Dea, Marcel Herrand, and Fernand Ledoux, as the ordinary mortals in the case, Mix pathos and period to good effect, although Ledoux's departure with the devilish Arletty is mildly inconclusive...
...that not even Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto was informed of this destination. Prieto found out about it only because he happened to be in Cartagena on business. The maneuver had been worked out by Juan Negrin, the pro-Communist Foreign Minister of the Largo Caballero government, in cahoots with Marcel Rosenberg, the Soviet ambassador, and Arthur Stakheevsky, Soviet economic adviser in Madrid (both of whom were later purged by Stalin...
...writing. Religion is a subject he refuses to discuss at all. He is equally ill at ease in the world of the ruminative intellectual. But he recognizes that in that world there is much worth knowing. In the bright sun, Hemingway recalls the shut-in figure of Marcel Proust. "Because a man sees the world in a different way and sees more diverse parts of the world does not make him the equal of a man like Marcel Proust," says Hemingway humbly. "Proust knew deeper and better than anyone the life of which he wrote...