Word: nymphe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unquestionably the work of an expert: the tricky job of slitting the canvas was notably clean; two more valuable paintings (Cezanne's Bread and Eggs and Edouard Manet's Nymph Surprised) hung beside the stolen Monet-but to an initiate, these would be recognized as unsaleable. Not so Berge (Embankment). This exquisite, frosty scene of the Seine River bank near the Norman village of Vetheuil, where Monet often painted, has been in Buenos Aires since 1912, is comparatively little known elsewhere. Because no complete, official catalogue of Monet's work exists, the painting might well be disposed...
Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...
Midway between then & now were White Rock's angelic nymph, Kellogg's Corn Flakes' calico-clad "sweetheart of the corn" and Baker Chocolate's "La Belle Chocolatiere." .Today's climax is typified by Aircooled Motors Corp.'s (Franklin engines) current advertising illustration of a lithe and leggy air-cooled lovely clad in little or nothing and saying bithely into a phone: "Pick me up at eight . . . and we'll fly to the club...
...many respects the picture is very good. If the test for a film is its ability to make one forget his inhibitions, his preconceived notions and expectations, then "The Contant Nymph" succeeds. Any attempt to portray the life of a composer to the audiences which attend movies is not liable to be good but this one is definitely worth seeing. Whether or not one likes the picture depends largely upon his temperament and mood at the time he sees it. To the extreme cynic it would seem unduly emotional. The naive but delicate might enjoy it exceedingly. And it doesn...
...Such effort, if nothing else, is commendable. For it makes some effort to "legitimatize" the screen into a point where not only the Hays office but all the standards of movieland are strict enough to produce a film that holds the delicate pattern that is portrayed in "The Constant Nymph...