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...history of the liberation of the artist. The steps by which the Impressionists and Post Impressionists established this freedom, and its particular adaptation by the Cubists, the Expressionists and the Post War Group are outlined in the exhibition. Monet, Seurat, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, Marc, Villon, Leger, Cocteau, Lurcat, Hugo are a few of the artists shown. A statement of the chief interest and contribution of each will be printed under the paintings...
...title role, a part created in the U. S. by John Barrymore in 1917, is Dennis (Vagabond) King. Not a few of King's henchmen will be pleased and surprised at his performance in this, his first nonsinging dramatic role in six years. No longer a roaring Villon. Mr. King, in an auburn wig, makes a convincingly demure and sensitive Ibbetson. Jessie Royce Landis is adequate as the kind-hearted Duchess of Towers. Valerie Taylor's Mrs. Deane is astonishingly ill-motivated for such a capable actress...
...Villon," Dr Spencer, Sever...
...clarify the piece?which can be safely categorized neither as burlesque, travesty or satire?audiences were advised through the programs that: "The vagabond who comes into The Tavern is the unmasked Cohan. And yet this vagabond could have been a Wandering Jew, Villon, Rabelais, Shelley, Puck. There is probably no one in America who knows better than he what is effective in the theatre. He is aware . . . just how audiences react to certain things that may be made to happen." Subsequent things that Actor Cohan made to happen were received with robust laughter when the audience was sure of itself...
...Vagabond King (Paramount). Francois Villon was a lean, bony, shrivelled man, with a sharp dark face and an upper lip pulled into permanent irony by a dagger slash he got one night outside the church of St. Benoit-le-Bientourne. He made an indifferent living in the Paris underworld of the 15th Century, and there is evidence that he served several jail terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this...