Word: cocteau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Un Tramway Nommé Désir rolled into Paris in the costliest production ever given a U.S. play in France. Adapter-Producer Jean Cocteau, Parisian jack-of-all-arts, had treated it to a few touches of his own. In each seduction scene, a spotlight shifted to a Negro woman doing a belly dance in the background. Cocteau had also salted the dialogue. One critic noted that he had used "merde at least ten times, and it was one of the milder expressions...
...side, he began translating Rabelais, went to France in 1926 for a look at the Rabelais country and stayed until 1933. While in Europe he published his Rabelais, plus some translations of Pirandello and Jean Cocteau, and edited the literary quarterly New Review...
...York City, where he spent a harrowing fortnight five months ago, seemed like a nightmare in retrospect to Jean Cocteau, France's birdlike little Jack-of-all-arts. "New York is not a city that sits down," he said. "It is not a town that sleeps . . . I am talking about a town that stands up because if it sat down it would rest, and it would think, and if it went to bed it would fall asleep and dream, and it wants neither to think nor to dream, but to divide its time upright, between the two breasts...
...Diable au Corps by Raymond Radiguet, a precocious protege of Jean Cocteau, who began it in 1920 when he was 17, published it in 1923, the year he died...
...Elsa Maxwell hornswoggled U.S. society in Paris into believing in the existence of a fictitious wealthy couple from Oklahoma named Fitch, who were "doing" the Continent. They planted newspaper stories about the Fitches, and even concocted an art exhibition by Mrs. Fitch, for which Jean Cocteau and others forged paintings. The night bearded Monty Woolley opened in Manhattan in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Porter gave a party for him. The host was the last to arrive, and on his arm was a stout, middle-aged lady (recruited from a circus) whose beard was a little longer than...