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...alert; he recognized the ability and the future value of the French Impressionists - Degas, Manet, Monet, Renoir - at a time when only one other man in France, the late Art Dealer George Durand-Ruel, was willing to take a chance on them. Ambroise Vollard bought his first pic ture, a Degas racing scene, for a few francs. Soon he made friends with the artist, became intimate with the entire Impressionist circle. Next step was to give up his practice and open in the Rue Laffitte a tiny art shop that has become a legendary shrine for art students. Dealer Vollard...
...drawing board. When they assumed faintly human attitudes, his guffaw of delight sent them scampering back. Then, singlehanded, with $40. he tried to make an animated cartoon cinema called Steamboat Willie. His brother lent him several hundred dollars more to photo graph it and get to Hollywood. The pic ture did not sell but it got him a studio job. Soon after he invented an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon. Sound came to the cinema and his boss scrapped Oswald and Disney. With $15,000 savings, he and his elder brother went to work on an animated cartoon cinema with sound...
...hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and the females fade at an early age. The children scream, stamp, roll on the ground and will not eat their Centipedes." "The average Penguin has the mind of an eight-year-old child but he gets his pic ture in the Sunday papers...
...sandwich?" She got bigger jobs quickly, went on the road for a while. After rehearsing for an hour, she stepped into the leading part in High Stakes (1925). As Lou in The Barker, she won fame, a cinema contract and a husband (Norman Foster). Her first pic- ture, For the Love of Alike (silent), did not please her; she gave up the idea of a cinema career until talking pictures came in. Cast with Maurice Chevalier in The Big Pond (not yet released), she taught him one word of U. S. slang per day, explaining what it meant in French...
Scooper de Gandt. No alluring French woman but a man whose blood is a mix ture of French and Belgian scooped the story of the Dictator's fall for his U. S. employers, the United Press. They put the news on their wires six hours ahead of competitors, kept on firing out detail after detail through an anxious day, while other news services periodically reported the official denials of the Spanish censor...