Word: moulins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best of all is Wechsberg's portrait of George Washington Hayes, an American Negro trumpet player at the Moulin Rouge in Paris who got along famously with the gentle old mother of one of the Polish violinists because he, too, loved to wander through graveyards...
...wrote Bedtime Story for Maurice Chevalier and Mama Loves Papa in collaboration with Arthur Kober; for 20th Century he wrote The House of Rothschild and Moulin Rouge, both highly successful pictures. By 1935, when Fox merged with 20th Century, Johnson was already regarded as a fairly important asset. By the time he decided to go independent, last year, he was Fox's highest-priced writer ($3,500 a week), was doing the lion's share of the studio's most important pictures, and was privileged to turn down the most desperately fat contract Hollywood has ever offered...
...Moulin Rouge, to the booming of a spirited orchestra, France's bons vivants of the last century watched platoons of girls abandon themselves to the high kicking dance which offered teasing flashes of white, gartered thighs between black silk stockings and foaming whirlpools of petticoats. There, too, at a table always reserved for him, sat dwarfed, aristocratic, dipsomaniac Toulouse-Lautrec, watching, sketching, sipping...
...fallen angel; she was exotic and excitable. ..." Lautrec's biographer Gerstle Mack described her differently: "She never allowed herself to lapse into vulgarity. ... Her friends were generally writers or artists, cultivated men in whose company she felt at ease." Lautrec immortalized Avril in numerous poses: as a Moulin Rouge spectator, in conventional garb leaving the cabaret, dancing a pas seul with her skirts flung high to reveal legs of startling thinness. Lautrec's most famous poster, Le Divan Japonais, featured Avril with her flaming red hair under a large black bonnet, listening with a toppered escort...
Born in Paris in 1868, Jane Avril was the bastard daughter of an Italian nobleman and a morbid demimondaine whose cruelty for a while sent Jane to an asylum. Avril never had a dancing lesson. She and Lautrec probably first met at the Moulin Rouge in 1889. She had a son,* and in the year Lautrec died (1901) took the boy to New York, but returned in a month to her beloved Paris...