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...Columbus, Ohio. As mural painter he has just completed four large historical panels for the Bronx County Building showing the history of Mayor McKee's bailiwick from its foundation by Patroon Jonas Bronck. As a stage designer he made the maquettes for the U. S. production of Rostand's Chantecler...
...Killed (Paramount) is an extraordinary picture for several reasons. One is that the emotion with which it is mainly concerned?contrition?has generally been considered too vague or too rare for cinemaddicts to appreciate, except in its most blatant and trivial forms. Taken from a play by Maurice Rostand, The Man I Kitted presents the case of a hypersensitive French soldier who, when the War is over, is tortured by remembering a young German whom he stabbed to death in the trenches. Just how this grisly recollection affects the Frenchman becomes clear when a priest, to whom he has confessed...
...French. Her mother, who lives with her, thinks she will be as great as Sarah Bernhardt. Miss Colbert eats potatoes and eclairs without effect on her figure (103 lb.), never collects press notices, seldom socializes, has not danced with anyone except her husband since her marriage. She enjoys reading Rostand, Conrad and Ferber; she attends the theatre six nights a week when she is not working...
...Dutton ($3). THE PHANTOM EMPEROR: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American combination. But U. S. play-goers who have seen Walter Hampden act the Parisian smash of 1897, Edmond Rostand's lyrical Cyrano de Bergerac, have gained an inkling of what 17th Century France was like. For swaggering, fork-tongued Gascon Cyrano actually lived, and in those melodramatic days. The Rogers biography reveals the real Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-55) as "swordsman-libertine-man-of-letters." Author of Walt...
...became interested in technicolor, probably the only subject of the many so casually learned on which he is recognized as a specialist. He is a fairly good athlete, taller and heavier than he looks in his pictures; in spite of his size he wants to make a cinema of Rostand's L'Aiglon, playing the little prince. After being engaged for two years to Joan Crawford, whom his father and stepmother, Mary Pickford, were rumored not to like much, he married her last spring in Manhattan. Some of his pictures : A Woman of Affairs, The Barker, Fast Life...