Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Wall (Essex-Universal; Ellis) is a French murder mystery. The victim (Philippe Nicaud) is a young Parisian actor who drinks Scotch and smokes English cigarettes, but his outstanding habit is routinely French. The poor fellow cannot stop making love to another man's wife (Jeanne Moreau), his sweetheart from drama-school days. As the film begins, the husband (Gerard Oury), a dull young electronics millionaire, is expanding his plant, reinforcing a new concrete wall with the corpse of his wife's lover...
...moved extensive reinforcements into Havana today." Some of the arrivals were trained hands: Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana jig ("My third dancing partner casually unstrapped his .38 and placed it under his hat on the chair...
Botch Dog. In Pawtucket, R.I., Eugene J. Moreau's Dalmatian neglected to bark when a fire broke out late at night in the kitchen closet, got himself deeper in the doghouse by biting the first fireman to show...
Gottschallc: The Banjo (Eugene List, piano; Vanguard). A reminiscence of pre-Civil War New Orleans in the form of brief compositions by a onetime resident, Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69). The first American to win an international reputation as pianist and composer, Gott-schalk's arrangements of Creole songs and dances were as popular in Paris of the mid-19th century as Chopin's mazurkas...
...grain merchant's son, born in Picardy, Matisse began a stumbling art apprenticeship at 20. He studied for a while under Adolphe Bouguereau (a sort of defrosted Ingres) and then under the minor painter and great teacher Gustave Moreau. He practiced and trained and worked, for as he was to tell his own students years later, "One must learn to walk firmly on the ground before one tries the tightrope." To support himself, he tried copying masterpieces in the Louvre-and learned to his dismay that the wives and daughters of the museum guards were better copyists than...