Word: ren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this most Dada of the Dadaists resigned from the group, ostensibly because Dada was beginning to develop certain rational theories which led to Surrealism. He collaborated on a ballet with Composer Erik Satie, on a brilliant movie, Entr'acte, with René Clair, and, in the true Dada spirit, accepted the rosette of the Legion of Honor. Wealthy and well advertised by Gertrude Stein, in the last few years Picabia has rested on his reputation, yachting and developing an elegantly fretful manner. Last week Paris was shocked at 60-year-old Yachtsman Picabia's latest show...
...AMERICAN THEATRE - Dial ($5). Included is a history of the U. S. cinema by Renè Fülö-Miller...
Well-assorted list of guest speakers at the Continental Congress last week included two who sprang surprises. On the opening day of the fiesta French Ambassador René de Saint-Quentin embarrassed his more serious listeners by whimsically admitting being mystified by the existence in a democracy of an order founded on such strictly aristocratic principles. The Congress had barely recovered from this shock when it learned that, for the first time since he has been in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt was going to accept an invitation to address it. Said the President extemporaneously...
Storm in a Teacup (Alexander Korda) is the tidiest, canniest, best-played bit of heather comedy to come from across the sea since René Clair made The Ghost Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood's) dog. Patsy, and her without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into...
Died. Harry René Lee, 92, onetime (1935-36) commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans and a chief sponsor in the South of the Blue and Gray reunion at Gettysburg. Pa.; of old age; in Nashville, Tenn. "General" Lee joined the Confederate Army at Tupelo in 1862 when he was 16, later enlisted in the British Navy, serving on the same ship with the late King George...