Word: musee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andreas-Salomé. Then he settled down in an art colony in Worpswede, Germany, where he met and married Clara Westhoff, a handsome young sculptress. Suddenly the poet's constitutional melancholy grew acute. He had discovered that he could not keep a wife and a muse at the same time. The wife graciously bowed out; Rilke went off to Paris, where in 1905 he became private secretary to Sculptor Auguste Rodin...
...most part, Capra clings so faithfully to Broadway Bill that in one sequence he appears to have lifted scenes bodily out of the old picture without bothering to reshoot them. Among the performers playing a return engagement: Raymond Walburn as a gentlemanly tout, Clarence Muse as a trainer, Douglas Dumbrille as a big-time gambler, Frankie Darro as a crooked jockey. As extra dividends, Capra has plumped out the cast with some new players who are a match for them, especially William Demarest, who plays Walburn's sidekick, Charles Bickford as a dyspeptic millionaire, Percy Kilbride as a hayseed...
...Dean Acheson pointed out at dinner one night, the visitor's gifts only began with statecraft. Some fifty years ago, said Acheson, the muses had fought to control González' future. In the end, only four remained in the running. One touched his tongue and made him an orator, another touched his head and made him a statesman, a third touched his fingers and made him a musician. "And," said Acheson, "the fourth muse, Terpsichore, touched his feet-and I don't have to tell you what happened." González roared with laughter. After dinner...
Soon the Dramatic Muse will be able to leave New York and pitch her tent by the rural wayside for the summer, content in the knowledge that she's got at least one good revue to her credit this season. The Hartmans, Grace and Paul, are back again in a new intimate revue, and it's one that's a pleasure to watch all the way. "Tickets, Please!" has a good many features to commend it, and a full list of the credits would read very much like The Playbill...
...them traces an incestuous path down the lineage of Rome's haughty Caesars, another gets a hold on the book of Exodus, turns it upside down, shakes its patriarchal Mosaic to fragments, and finally puts it all together again in the image of Graves's inseparable muse, the so-called "White Goddess...