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Died. Yvette Guilbert, 79, famed, tawny-haired pioneer diseuse; in Aix-en-Provence, France. The original of a Toulouse-Lautrec watercolor, her artistry was one of the risqué features of Paris of the '90s. In low neck and long black gloves she ranged from café songs to medieval ballads. She was received in England by Composer Sir Arthur Sullivan at Edward VII's request; in 1932 was dubbed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
Munch was a highly neurotic, misogynous, inward-turning artist who led the revolt of the '90s against the formal, detached, analytical approach of the French Impressionists. Munch and his followers, trying for the highest degree of personal, emotional expression, deliberately set out to step up the passionate style of Vincent van Gogh. Munch's first one-man Berlin exhibition, in 1892, contained 55 screechingly colored, cacophonously designed canvases. Munch's best-known Expressionist contemporaries were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff...
Fashions in Surgery. Castration as a method for checking prostatic cancer is once more in fashion. It was abandoned in the '90s because it did not cure, revived in the '30s because many doctors believe the temporary relief it offers is worth while. The operation is often supplemented by continuing doses of female sex hormones. Many patients refuse the treatment...
...apologizes for the disorders of housecleaning. She says a little about her career, explains why she has been laying off movies lately, confining herself to a yearly ten-week personal appearance tour. She is tired, she says, of playing the gay belle of the Gay '90s. She turned down the leading roles in Sin Town and Pittsburgh because they didn't come up to snuff. Meanwhile she has written two plays and a novel. She is going to call the novel Joe Casanova...
...Cross Sewing Circle where elderly women at sewing machines try to beat the production of 74-year-old Max Pollon, graduate of the sweatshops of the '90s...