Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encountered Author Wells only as a compiler of outlines-of-knowledge or a pamphleteering old World Conspirator, had a good chance to make his acquaintance as a young man. And every faithful and once-faithful Wellsian was glad that these early tales (The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Food of the Gods, In the Days of the Comet} had been reissued, looked forward to recapturing the excitement of their first reading...
...Swift appears again and again in this collection, and it is particularly evident in a predisposition to make the stories reflect upon contemporary political and social discussions." But old Author Wells is rationalizing long after the fact of young Author Wells. He now calls The Island of Dr. Moreau "an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time...
...anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice in a stained glass factory where for four or five years he earned 50 centimes (then about 9?) a week. He studied under the romantic-classical Gérome, William Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau, grew to be known as one of the wildest of modernists. Georges Rouault is not an easy artist for the uninitiate who are either baffled or enraged by his splashes of paint, the occasionally grotesque appearance of his great clown's heads, his brick-colored nudes. But no knowing art student could enter...
...from which Fifi for all his blustering is rigorously excluded. They lunch and quarrel together nearly every day, but not even Fifi Vollard knows where Georges Rouault lives. He receives all his mail and makes all his appointments at No. 14 Rue de La Rochefoucauld which is the Gustave-Moreau Museum of which he is curator. Neither his stately wife, Marthe Le Sidaner who paints very conservative portraits, nor his four children will reveal the family address...
Island of Lost Souls is worth seeing particularly for the moments in which Dr. Moreau twitches quietly with pleasure as he allows himself to think what he will cause to happen to the castaway's fiancée when she goes to bed. In Hollywood's current cycle of horror pictures, this one deserves to be rated as much more atrocious than The Mummy (TIME, Jan. 16), a shade less discomforting than last year's Freaks...