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...first play, Escurial, by the modern French playwright Michel de Ghelderode, is by far the better performed of the double bill, the other half of which is a Moliere farce, Les Precieuses Ridicules. Ghelderode's play is bitter, ambiguous at times to the point of obscurity, but a fearsome dramatic tension is maintained for the very reason that one is unsure of the details of the situation. It involves a pseudo-farcical biplay between a king waiting for the dying of his wife and his all-too-knowing clown, leading to a frightening and tragic revelation...
...went home, set the cubes in motion by creating his first mobile. Now, 13 years after Mondrian's death (in Manhattan, at 72), his recognition is reaching new heights. Paris, which had never seen a one-man Mondrian show, this spring had two. The first authoritative biography, by Michel Seuphor (Piet Mondrian; Abrams; $17.50), has just been published. Two U.S. museums are laying plans for large-scale Mondrian shows this autumn...
Juices of Life. The recorder of this Renoir scene of 1918 is Michel Georges-Michel, 73-year-old dean of Paris art critics, who began his career by interviewing Edgar Degas, has in a busy lifetime turned out more than a hundred books-novels, histories, art studies. To top off his career, Michel Georges-Michel this week is bringing out the American edition of his carefully culled memoirs (From Renoir to Picasso; Houghton Mifflin; $4). Glittering with wit and the reflections of the great, M. G.-M.'s book is not only lively anecdotal history but a refreshing reminder...
...Paris will crack open an ancient bottle of cognac. There will be-among heaps of succulent goodies at every turn-a seven-layered, 72-lb. cake on a bed of crimson candy roses from the pastry cooks and confectioners of the Société de la Saint-Michel. And for the visiting Queen's own very private use, there will be a single crystal flagon of perfume concocted with the help of the most sensitive nostrils in France as an "homage from the French Perfumers to Her Majesty Elizabeth II." "We have destroyed the formula," explained a spokesman...
...wind screamed and the rain beat and the lightning felled a great branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano (gypsy) the boy called him. The two were inseparable, but very little else was safe...