Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Jacques Deval, 37, Parisian, is in Hollywood superintending French talkies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This is his third trip to the U. S. Of himself, he-says: "I am not a humorist. I am a merry pessimist." He has written several plays, of which one, Her Cardboard Lover, has been produced...
Around a flashing, sputtering pinwheel of Parisian excitement last week spun this rumor...
During the last decade the works of massive, humorous, Spanish-born Pablo Ruiz Picasso, 48, at present the most famed Parisian painter, have been bought at huge prices by museums, enthusiasts, tycoons the world over. Often he is acclaimed a Master; "it is even said that soldiers of the Red Army stand as guards of honor before his paintings in the Soviet museums." Yet many a purchaser has been puzzled at heart by the scrawl of a cadaverous bull, the entirely blue circus-rider, the patchwork of pasted cloth, cement, brickdust he has bought. And many a student has sought...
Pictures and comment in the Parisian journals made the homeless waifs the idols of the warm-hearted French. Some enterprising merchant fashioned a Siamese-twin-like yarn doll representing a boy and a girl which was immediately seized upon by the Poilu as a good luck fetish to be worn around the neck. Soon everyone wore them in every Allied army...
...French painters bore such disturbingly un-French names as Foujita, Friesz, Kvapil, Carlu, Mutter, Hecht, Van Dongen, but apart from the accident of birth the subtitle was justified. These artists have not only made France their physical and spiritual home, but their training, their technique, their outlook, is as Parisian as a bottle of Pernod. One other thing was noticeable: Les Trente were completely modern in their technique but it was a suave, well-tempered modernism. Here was a group of artists who have arrived, spiritually, socially, financially. A little bronze by the late Antoine Bourdelle, one of the greatest...