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...important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked, Hitler-mustached, Bon Vivant M. Duplessis...
Holder of a 745-year-old title, Count Castelbarco had long been an art collector and ban vivant when he decided, seven years ago, to take up painting seriously. To Manhattan he brought, besides the self-portrait, some clear, flowing Italian landscapes, some easy, informal portraits. He brought as well his wife, the Countess Wally, daughter of Arturo Toscanini, famed conductor, whose hobby is painting. Herself unmusical, Countess Castelbarco likes to wear shoes modeled on those of the Medicis, made of cork, with five-inch heels, three-inch soles...
...Self Portrait of the Artist Slightly Squiffed by Baron Vivant Dominique Denon, Napoleon's chief looter and director of the Louvre...
...might spoil their friendship, and Jane Matthews (Jean Arthur), who refused because she was in love with his best friend, are shown as childishly innocent, this bow to censorship does not seriously impair the picture's conception of its hero as a vain, generous, clever, sentimental bon vivant, capable of committing suicide by eating too many oysters. It is a warm and genial period piece which reaches its maximum distinction in that scene in which Edward Arnold, making the most of one of the fattest parts that it has ever been the good fortune of a Hollywood character actor...
...TIME'S relegation to "dilettante Mayfair," but Edward VII lives in the hearts of lovers of good living and the archives of great cookery. Chefs all over the world, viewing with dismay the dullness of the fare at Buckingham Palace under George and Mary, sigh for the bon vivant Edward VII, whose passing, commemorated in such strange fashion by a democracy-professing American aristocracy of good living, ushered in the Reign now celebrating its Silver Jubilee...