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...Vagabond King (Paramount) provides a multimillion-dollar answer to a question that nobody has been asking: Where are the snores of yesteryear? In 1901, the short, unhappy life of François Villon, the notorious balladist of 15th century France, was rewritten by Playwright Justin McCarthy as a long, claptrappy rapier romance that held the stage for decades and made E. H. Sothern the most famous scenery-chewer of his time...
...Brucker went into Republican politics. At 33 he became state attorney general and in 1931, at 36, governor of Michigan. He cut his own salary 10% (to $4,500 a year). "I feel," said Brucker, who dealt with millions at work and pinched pennies at home, "like a vagabond king." In his 1932 re-election campaign Mrs. Brucker tried to help, made a speech proclaiming: "Wilber has been a great governor. Two years ago, when he took office, the state had a deficit of $2,000,000. Today, in just a few short months, he has raised that...
Died. Carlyle Blackwell, 71, wavy-haired romantic idol of the silent screen (The Third Woman, The Beloved Vagabond, She), and leading man for early screen beauties Marion Bavies, Betty Blythe, Blanche Sweet, Alice Joyce et al.; of heart disease; in Miami...
Originally published in Paris in 1910, The Vagabond is the most recent of the English translations of Colette's novels. It is principally her analysis of the years after she divorced her first husband, the consequent disillusionment with physical love, and her immersion in stage life as a mime. As far as I can judge, the translation is a good one. The studied incompleteness of her style, which ends not in a statement but a suggestion, has been preserved, as in: "The broadest of broad jokes doesn't scare me, but I don't like talking of love...
Perhaps the most striking aspect of The Vagabond is the intentional shabbiness of its symbols: for love, Colette uses the dull-witted, cloddish Maxime; and for work and art, the rushing, irregular life of a cafe dancer. Renee faces no final decision, because in Colette's world there is none. Her characters drift on the sea of their instincts, and each decisive action shifts only a little the burden of their unfulfilled lives. In the end, Renee writes to Maxime: "Seek far from me that youth, that fresh, unspoilt beauty, that faith in the future and yourself, in a word...