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...Harold Ross. Born in Aspen, Colo., he had been a waterfront reporter in San Francisco, a picture-snatching newshawk in Atlanta, boss of a Negro gang in Panama and, most important, editor of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. The other was a suave, good-humored millionaire named Raoul Fleischmann, who at that time was in the bakery business. (His uncle made the yeast...
...Died. Raoul A. Amador, 59, president of the League of Nations Council, Panama's Minister to Paris; of pneumonia; in Paris...
Three dates, each five years apart, are epochal in the life of Raoul Dufy. In 1895, one of nine children of a bourgeois family in Havre, he first began to paint as relaxation from clerking in an importing firm. In 1900 he went to Paris, studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under pompous Père Léon Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse...
...1910s, this picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity stunt. When Raoul returns with...
...life of a Pennsylvania of Belgian extraction with a desire to excel in the art of dancing is portrayed in "Bolero." Raoul's existence depended entirely on his ambition, and he was so eager to reach the top that he fired his partners without feeling, and he deserted his night-club in Paris to enlist in the Belgian army in the World War as a publicity stunt. When the war was over, Raoul tried to start again, but his lungs were weak, and his partner was drunk on the opening night. Helen, a former partner of his who had left...