Word: villone
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Every payday he bought more books. Du Maurier suggested Dumas, De Musset, Villon (he picked up French) ; De Quincey brought him toward Wordsworth; Hazlitt, by devious means, to the metaphysicians. He read The Origin of Species and a life of Buddha; he bought a Gray's Anatomy and set his hopes toward medicine. Those hopes were forgotten when he happened on Chaucer, Keats and Shelley, who opened "a world where incredible beauty was daily bread and breath of life...
...same can be said for the dazzling collection of esoteric invective Mr. D. Bevan Wyndham Lewis has slung into the Dedication to his matchless excursion into the medieval, Francois Villon. It is sheer artistry, and while the General's list is a mere list, Mr. Lewis' is a stylistic delight...
...Were King (Paramount). To a guileless cinemaddict the task of making Frangois Villon dull and respectable might appear Herculean. In If I Were King, Director Frank Lloyd and Writer Preston Sturges, no doubt aided by the Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the clich...
...best thing in If I Were King is Basil Rathbone's acidulous portrayal of Louis XI as an unstable, peevish, medieval neurotic. The picture generally omits the few known facts of Villon's desperate, dog-eared life in favor of an elaborate fiction wherein he wins a war against the Duke of Burgundy, acquiring Frances Dee as his reward. Typical shot: Ronald Colman (Villon) and Basil Rathbone bowing to each other...
...advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists Brancusi, Arp, Duchamp-Villon, Calder, Laurens. Pevsner. But she had reckoned without J. B. Manson. By the terms of the amended act. Mr. Manson was made the arbiter of whether any given piece of carving was a work of art (duty free) or not. After inspecting two samples by Constantin Brancusi and Hans...