Word: morand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RUTH MORAND...
...playing fascinated him. The pair went in for two-piano music, particularly for flowered transcriptions of U. S. jazz. Composers Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel started going to hear them along with Composer Darius Milhaud, who named a pantomime Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Also went Writer Paul Morand, Painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Fisticuffer Georges Carpentier, the late King Ferdinand of Rumania, musical Prince Charles of Belgium. Six years ago as Le Boeuf began to take on a smug, profitable air, Wiener & Doucet left it, started giving serious concerts which (radically, then) featured jazz. Last week in Manhattan they began...
Whether or not he was selling anything Gaudier worked like a demon, sometimes made 150 drawings in an evening. Gradually he met some useful friends: Frank Harris, Paul Morand, Jacob Epstein, John Middleton Murry. But he quarreled bitterly with Murry because Katherine Mansfield did not like Sophie. Nobody liked Sophie. Gaudier himself quarreled with her constantly. Frequently he tried to get her to become his mistress but she always refused, though she was not pleased when he went to other women...
...World Champions" by Paul Morand has been one of the most discussed books of the year in France. It is to be published here this month. The scene is again laid in America...
...Author. Paul Morand, 42, poet, globetrotter, onetime member of the French diplomatic corps, is tall, dark, silent in company, but says he is happy, content, unruffled and undisturbed. Other (translated) books: Green Shoots, The Living Buddha, Open All Night, Closed All Night...