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...Safeguard of French Art is the creation of a rotund, twinkling Frenchman, the Due de Trévise, whose great grandfather, one of Napoleon's marshals, was killed by an infernal machine in 1835 while riding beside King Louis Philippe. In gratitude to the family, the King gave their name to a street, the Rue de Trévise near the Folies-Bergère. When the Folies first opened it was gaily called the Folies-Trévise, a name which the furious family succeeded in getting changed. The present Duke likes to talk about this regretfully...
...Duke founded the "Sauvegarde" as a socialite, money-making organization to eke out Government care of French art treasures, of which he is a noted connoisseur. The particular passion of the Due de Trévise is for painting of that period when Napoleon's eagles had deflected the operatic ardor of the French revolution into the ardor of Empire...
Schoolboys who retain from their history books an image of a pale, young Napoleon seizing the tricolor at the Battle of Arcole know the work of Baron Antoine Jean Gros. A pupil of David, the court painter and classicist, Gros took the field after he met Bonaparte at Milan and accompanied his army during the first Italian campaign. Charged by the Emperor with the duty of selecting artistic booty, he is responsible for the nucleus of the Louvre's vast treasury. Little known in the U. S., Gros was represented last week at Knoedler's by 17 pictures...
...Great Lady" Miss Terris plays the part of Eliza Bowen, a tavern wench who wishes to become a "great lady." To achieve her object she goes to extremes in securing the aid of a ship's captain, two husbands, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Louis XVIII...
...cast, Tullio Carminati, as Jumel, is excellent, and Irene Bordoni, playing a French dressmaker who becomes a countess, is, as always, delightful; Shepperd Strudwick, the Napoleon addict is adequate, but his performance lacks sureness. Frederick Loewe's music is pleasant if not catching, the outstanding number being "Why Can't This Night Last Forever." William Dollar's choreography is often striking, but over balanced with quasi-ballet. Albert Johnson's revolving sets are superb...