Word: michell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...libretto for A Light from St. Agnes was taken from a play written and acted by Minnie Maddern Fiske. The theatrical lady placed the scene near her birthplace, in a tough Louisiana town. Toinette (heroine) is the unsavory mistress of Michel, drunken leader of drunks. The curtain rises upon a chapel lit by a rose window and the interior of a hovel. Within the chapel rests the body of Agnes Devereaux, saintly lady. The village priest tells Toinette that Agnes Devereaux has made her the especial object of her benevolence, and Toinette is about to soften into sullen goodness when...
Paris. In the sale of the Michel Levy collection, Fragonard's Terrace Villa Réals brought 275,000 francs; Farmhouse, 115,000 francs; Head of a Philosopher, 415,000 francs. Watteau's Étude pour la Famille brought 260,000 francs; Enchanted Island, 475,000 francs; Enseigne de Gersaint, 470,000 francs. Twelve still life canvases by Chardin brought prices ranging from 26,000 francs to 220,000 francs, while his self-portrait reached 126,000 francs. Latour's Portrait of the Painter Silvestre went for 140,000 francs. Per-roneau's Portrait...
Prince Carol is 31 years of age and four years ago was married to Princess Helen of Greece. They have one son, Michel, aged 3. In 1918, rumors of his marriage with a Rumanian commoner (denied at Bucharest) attracted considerable attention. His father confined him for 75 days for a breach of military discipline which was popularly supposed to have been his marriage. Subsequently, so rumor went, he was forced to divorce his bride, having previously attempted to renounce the throne and commit suicide...
...Michel Auclair. This play, sponsored by the Provincetown group, is a pledge of lost hopes, a souvenir of misshapen direction. The author (Charles Vildrac) is a sort of French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills...
Pierrot the Prodigal. Not for over a year has the voice of Laurette Taylor been heard on the stage, nor was it heard when, after this long silence, she returned last week to play the title role of this pantomime by Michel Carre, to the music of Andre Wormser. Through three acts which deal with the fragile adventures of poor Pierrot who runs away with one Phrynette, returns home in tears, no player speaks a word. Miss Taylor's face is a painted mask of eternal, baffled laughter, of moon-blanched sorrow; her gestures are eloquent, her insight unfailing. George...