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In Los Angeles, a new arrival, pretty Burmese Cinemactress Win Min (The Purple Plain-TIME, March 14) Than, 21, crashed into headlines with seme Oriental slants on life likely to make U.S. husbands her most loyal fans. Said Win Min Than (a bride of a year): "Men are meant to...
Early Life. Born Aug. 18, 1908 in Béziers in southern France, the son of a French army doctor, Edgar Jean Vincent Barthelemy Faure (pronounced fore) was a nearsighted youth but a dazzling student, won his bachelor's degree at 15, his law degree at 19 from the...
A recluse who keeps his Paris address a secret, Rouault rarely offers clues to the meanings of his paintings, probably because, as he once wrote of his famous painting Three Judges: "What had seemed to me so simple pictorially has been thought a curious enigma." Guessing who the old king...
Tonight in Samarkand (by Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple Jr.) takes its theme from the famous Oriental legend-about the inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a...
Swallows in the Palace. At 32, King Norodom is plump, with thick black hair and a taste for black knitted ties. At his palace, an elegant blend of saffron and apricot coloring, King Norodom maintains a stable of thoroughbred horses, ceremonial elephants and a personal troupe of 50 dancing girls...