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...them, perhaps most, were concocted by second- or third-rate hacks, destined to make less than a ripple on theatrical tides with endless variations on the inevitable flagrant delit, or with revues and vaudevilles based on evanescent issues of the moment: the Franco-Russian Alliance, X-rays, the Parisian Metro, and the like. Others however, were constructed by comic dramatists of genuine wit and ability, humorists like Georges Feydeau, Tristan Bernard and Georges Courteline. If such authors may never be credited with bringing about any major revolutions in the French (or World) theatre, they were, all the same, uncontested experts...
Ceezee's coming-out party was just about the biggest event of the 1937-38 season. The first floor of the Common wealth Avenue house was decked with awnings and posters to create an atmosphere of Parisian streets; the guests danced till dawn to two orchestras in the drawing room banked with white flowers...
...grand old tradition of kiss-and-sell, sultry Parisian Singer Juliette Greco, 35, let upwards of 10 million European readers in on the details of her four-year whirl with Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, 59, who took her from cellar cafes to stardom in The Roots of Heaven. "What can a young woman see in an elderly tycoon with a toothbrush mustache, who smokes like a chimney, speaks through his nose and is perpetually angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost...
Died. Yves Klein, 34, farthest out of Paris' painters, a Dutch figurative artist's son who became a high-priced Parisian fad for his solid color (International Klein Blue) canvases, progressed to employing paint-slathered nudes as ''living brushes"; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...with two instructorships is in clover. In Palo Alto, one couple will move next month into a comfortable new house paid for mostly by a generous Stanford stipend. And hardly anyone can resist a "traveling fellowship"-the splendid European jaunt that so often produces scholars mainly versed in Vespas, Parisian girls, conversational Swedish, Oxbridge accents and appetites for paella...