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...Barbe, an aging beauty with a body like a whip, fox-red hair, a spoiled child's genius for misusing others, and a voracity for doing evil which grows in ratio to her sense of guilt. She works out on her niece Henrietta, on her sheeplike old nurse Nana, on the peasants, on an intense young priest who manages to frighten her. She becomes fascinated by an Oriental theory that one may be cleansed of venereal disease through sexual intercourse with a virgin child; that leads her to its spiritual parallel, the relief of her own evil through...
...RECORDS: Hazy and Blue,: a nice job on the Templeton tune by Kay Kyser. Song itself sounds like the concert jazz that was the range in the middle thirties... "Perfidia" by Nana Rodrigo is listed as a bolero, but that's about as far as the boleroness of the thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite...
...Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and for several years in Paris, was affected by Cezanne, the draftsmanship of Toulouse-Lautrec and later by the color experiments of the cubists. For his own pleasure, not for publication, he did a series of watercolor illustrations, notably six for Zola s Nana, four for Henry James's Turn of the Screw, which Critic Henry McBride of the New York Sun considered ''among the most memorable drawings to have been produced anywhere in this modern period." His experiments with cubist designs in architectural subjects have the neatness but none...
...Paris garret. He shares both the garret and a single pair of trousers with Painter Paul Cezanne (Vladimir Sokoloff). One day Zola listens to the story of a girl of the Paris streets, sees in it the material for a novel and writes his first great success, Nana (a tale with which Producer Samuel Goldwyn and beauteous Actress Anna Sten had less success 54 years later...
Paul Muni says that in any performance he will be satisfied if he leaves with his audience one unforgettable moment. Audiences of Zola will probably recall at least three: the scene in which the nervous young novelist, unaware that his Nana has become an overnight sensation, begs a loan of two francs from his publisher; the scene in which he tries to convince Mme Dreyfus and himself that his days of fighting are over; the courtroom speech in which he justifies his interference as a private citizen in L'Affaire Dreyfus. A Memorable also is Joseph Schildkraut...