Word: cocteau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sophocles told the story 2,000 years ago of (Edipus, the kindly King of Thebes, Fate's most luckless victim. Jean Cocteau took the Greek, made a text of it for Stravinsky, gave it to Monsieur J. Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical device, Stravinsky presented his (Edipus. He had a speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus...
...hard to stomach. The urge that leads so many romanticists to the Catholic Church has been called the desire of the jelly-fish for the rock. God has become the rage among the younger intellectuals in Europe. "La jeune France" has deserted almost en masse, under the leadership of Cocteau, to Rome. Synthesis and escape from this world's harsh disillusionments and an all-pervading peace come with incense and liturgy...
...times through popular airs. As in "The Adding Machine", the singing of "My country 'tis of thee" marks the culmination of an outburst of intolerance. The phonograph which played a poignant role in "Rain" and in "The Square Peg" and was doubled to two phonographs in Jean Cocteau's fantastic "Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel", is here multiplied into no less than four phonographs all playing different tunes full blast...
...lnhumaine becomes mysterious and spiritual. The poetry of machines is effectively interpreted through fantasy and an absolutely new technique. Much research and work has made this film the achievement of a poet. It is an artistic effort which has, at last, been realized; and the cinema becomes, as Jean Cocteau says, 'the tenth muse...
Rolf de Mare, famed impresario, also returned to Paris from America. Said he: 'Audacious works like The Skating Rink, by Candou les Maries, and La Tour Eifel, by Jean Cocteau, are beyond the American's narrow comprehension and slow...