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INDIAN AIR-Paul Morand-Houghton Mifflin ($2). "Air, water, earth and fire, the four elements of ancient science, are divided between the continents," believes observant Paul Morand. "Africa is consecrated to fire, Asia and Europe to earth, Oceania to water, but America has its principles in air-the open air, an air that is young and free, without shadow or wrinkle, exciting electricity." A Frenchman born in Russia, schooled at Oxford, a diplomat in Italy and Spain, Author Morand (Open All Night, Black Magic) has exorcised in his latest and most delightful travel book the air demons of Latin America...
Married. Paul-Louis Weiller, wealthy French director of the Gnome and Rhone Motors Co.; and Alice Diplarakos, Greek winner of the 1930 "Miss Universe'' title; in Paris. Witnesses: Author Paul Morand, Poet Paul Valery, Diplomat Philippe Berthelot. No witness was Graeco-American Wrestler Christopher Theophilus (Jim Londos), once reported engaged to Alice Diplarakos...
Writer Paul Morand wrote the film version of Don Quixote, Composer Maurice Ravel the music. The producers are hoping that again, as with Bolero, Ravel has exercised his flair for writing music which will please all kinds of people. To pay its way the film will need music more captivating than Massenet's flaccid operatic score. Chaliapin has been given two supporting casts, one English (Nelson Film, producers), one French (Nelson and Vandor, producers). He is said to be asking $200,000 as his share of the returns. Because he asked $4,000 a concert. Chaliapin's last...
...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...