Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half-century of Andre Malraux's life has been a full one. A frail little Parisian with bulging eyes and fluttering hands, he has divided his energies between art, Marxism, revolution, literature, archeology, exploration and war, is now chief political adviser to General Charles de Gaulle. Among Malraux's writings are two first-rate novels (Man's Fate, Man's Hope) and an equally fine study of art history. Splendidly illustrated translations of the first two volumes of his Psychology of Art were published in the U.S. in 1949. Last week came Volume...
...more than a quarter-century, Josephine Baker of the Folies Bergere and other Parisian spots has been the cream in French coffee, but she never thought she could be the same kind of success in the U.S.A. This week La Baker was learning better. Billed into Broadway's big, brassy Strand Theater for a three-week run, she had made such a hit that she was thinking about a U.S. tour...
Josephine, 45, who got her start in the all-Negro musical Shuffle Along (1922), gave the Strand's customers her latest continental routine. When she came onstage in a skintight, rhinestone-encrusted, white satin gown designed for her by Parisian Couturier Christian Dior, her brown-skinned elegance made bobby-soxers gasp and their boy friends whistle. Anybody who thought a quarter-century in Paris might have made "Josephine" languidly European soon realized his mistake. For all her high-styled gowns, Josephine was still mugging, swaggering and strutting with the free & easy abandon of a pig-tailed...
Died. Dikran ("Papa") Kelekian, 83, Turkish-born dealer in "Persian pots and Parisian paintings," early U.S. champion of Picasso and Matisse; in a jump from his 23rd floor hotel suite; in Manhattan. His "good customers" included John D. Rockefeller...
...production, supervised by Allan Davis of the Old Vic Company, is impeccable. Robert O'Hearn's scenery is simple, yet strikingly like a 17th century Parisian hotel must have been; Robert Fletcher's costumes are dazzling...