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...Nouveau Poor. In Los Angeles, Bookkeeper P. Marjorie Wright, 31, arrested on suspicion of embezzling $20,000, said she spent about $5,000 on clothes and a car, but burned the rest for fear her friends would suspect her if she spent more...
...people could be more different -Emmet Booth living in the kind of nouveau riche luxury that always seems rented, Miranda in the shabby comfort of a Greenwich Village house that is acrawl with Siamese cats and intellectual gentility. What Miranda Page would call a "relationship" seems impossible between two people so alien to each other. But as a veteran of suspense fiction (The Mask of Alexander), Author Albrand keeps the plot from collapsing. Booth inexorably moves in on Miranda with hammer locks of misunderstanding. In her politeness he manages to see incipient love, and in his calculated humility...
...sure of himself, he has strange ways, he is not open. So Hollywood must wash him out. But the film's treatment of Jett is no worse than America's. America would marry Jett Rink, absorb him (and his money)--until he was domesticated and merely nouveau riche...
Last week, it was the French Canadians' turn to take top billing. Twelve players from Montreal's Théâtre du Nouveau Monde turned in crackling, rapid-fire performances of three Molière one-act plays. Most of their audience was English-speaking, but the French actors' skilled miming as they romped through the Molière farces got the meaning across. The addition of the French plays and French style to the Stratford program was hailed not only as a theatrical coup, but also as a rare illustration of Canada's dual culture...
Particularly unusual for Kokoschka are the small naturalistic color lithographs designed as post cards for the Vienna Werkstatte in 1907 and typical of the art nouveau a decorative style popular in the late Victorian...