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...father, her patient mother, her wayward aunt-are engaging not merely as characters, but also as vehicles for an elegant, painter-like style: the morally deaf and helpless Aunt Nana, for instance, is a solid, touching characterization. But far more-as witness her crossing a street-she is a Renoir...
...exactly gleeful melody of "The Human Beast". Jean Gabin is the uncouth locomotive driver whose blood is polluted with the insane urge to kill those whom he loves; Simon Simon, his sweetheart and victim, is a mouse-like beauty whose coquetry instils the audience, too, with murderous desires. Jean Renoir's direction provides scenes of electrifying frankness and does more than full justice to the grim realism of Emile Zola, on whose novel of the same title "The Human Beast" is based. Two murders which are all but shown on the screen, one suicide, maddening jealousy and maddening love, puffing...
...Human Beast (French). Cunningly Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion] contrasts the distraction of human lives (in this filming of Zola's novel) with the mechanical majesty of locomotives, the modern industrial beauty of the railroad yards, which are regimented, grimy and shabby, but also vast and mysterious. In the morning the yards are seen bustling, in the rain forlorn, at night ominous. There is a gnawing dread that, like the human characters, the rushing trains will destroy each other, kill some one. But in the end it is the humans who kill and are killed...
...exhibit of modern prints in Fogg Museum affords the opportunity of seeing lithographs and etchings by Pissarro, Manet, and Renoir, in addition to the infinitely finer and more interesting products of contemporaries such as Benton, Picasso, Matisse, Lehmbruck, and Rivera. It is interesting to find what these men have to say for themselves through the simple medium of the print, for none of them are generally thought of as lithographers or etchers. Their reputations are founded upon their ability to paint, and although the distance which separates a painting from a print is not great, it can not be denied...
Died. Ambroise ("Fifi") Vollard, 72, famed, bearded, hulking French art dealer, who specialized in boosting the Impressionist painters (Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne); in an automobile crash near Versailles. Shrewd, bold in his judgments, when Cezanne died Vollard hastened to Aix, cornered the contents of the painter's studio, made a fortune...