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Louis Moyses, a very important gentleman with a long, full beard and a fat bank account, now runs several cafes of conventional night-club description, but his name and the name of his first cafe he owes in good part to Jean Wiener, the friend who played the piano. Poet Jean Cocteau drifted into the bare little shop one day, heard Wiener play Bach, told others. Cocteau named the place Le Boeuf sur le Toil (The Bull on the Roof). Wiener soon afterward acquired a partner, one Clement Doucet who drifted into Le Boeuf to display an elaborate invention, part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cafe Music | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Doucet the accompaniments. As was the case with Maier & Pattison, the two men have little in common. Wiener is Parisian to the finger tips, loves any city. Doucet spends his spare time on his farm near Bordeaux where he makes wine, raises cows and pigs. Since their arrival in the U. S. Wiener has been able to stomach only the finer kinds of U. S. cooking, such as chicken a la king. Doucet proudly eats griddle cakes & maple syrup, pork & beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cafe Music | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Their first night in Manhattan, Wiener spent in a Harlem cabaret, came in at 6 a. m. just as Farmer Doucet was getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cafe Music | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

Edward Cilley Weist '30, of New York City, will deliver a part in Latin Edmund Callis Berkeley '30 and Frederick Bernays Wiener 3L, of new York City, will deliver English Commencement parts. These will be given at the Commencement exercises, which take place on June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Men Chosen to Deliver Commencement Parts June 19 | 5/24/1930 | See Source »

There are those today who see in the successive retirements of Professors Copeland, Perry, and Wiener the continued falling away of the scholarly personalities which form the backbone of the Harvard faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW RECRUITS | 1/14/1930 | See Source »

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