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Renoir frequently used locations (Boudu Sauvé des Eaux, Swamp Water) in preference to his studio sets. Even in his studio pictures (La Marseillaise, This Land is Mine) he commands a realistic acting style which is wholly faithful to the milieu depicted...
...genitals made this group's day. They nervously sat through Eaux d' Artifice, a film disappointingly about fountains. The old gentleman, who apparently had seen Scorpio Rising before, attempted to quiet the group's unrest. "Never you mind," he told his followers, squinting down a neighboring dress with his one good eye, "They'll be on that screen (snicker) in the Lord's good time." The religious reference disturbed a young rebel next to him, who sank back in his seat combing his 1956 ducktail, and angrily staring at the more Modish haircuts of the collegians...
...always the best music newly written. Critics felt the difference, deplored the festival's lack of a "genius," but pronounced Frenchman Jean Martinon's String Quartet, Op. 43 first-rate, Englishman Humphrey Searle's Poem for 22 Strings pretty good. Festival shocker: Le Soleil des Eaux, a surrealistic, twelve-tone composition for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra by the current bad boy of French music, Pierre Boulez, 27. It puzzled even the radicals. One of the more conservative was reminded of the story of the man who took his first bath: "I can't say that...
...ground as they withdrew forward units under terrible battering. But at the line's western end, below Abbeville, where thin British regiments sweated under a torrid summer sun, a double armored column punched swiftly across the Somme delta to the Bresle River, then down to Forges-les-Eaux, a little spa east of Rouen. The Allied line closed behind these raiders, whose objective was to cut Paris' communications to the sea and to force Wey-gand's main retreat southeastward. Allied planes, bombing and machine-gunning, attacked the clanking intruders in swarms...
...following program will be presented: Prelude, Aria et Finale, Cesar Franck Cloches a travers les feuilles, Debussy Poissons d'or, Debussy "General Lavine" (eccentric), Ravel Jeu d'eaux, Ravel El Albaicin, from "Iberia," Ravel "Le vieux monsieur," from "Un coin d'une ruelle sombre," Carl Engel Baren Tang, Bela Bartok No. II from "Drei Klavier-stueke," Opus 11, Arnold Schoenberg Wild Men's Dance, Leo Ornstein Scherzo in B-flat minor, Chopin Impromptu in F-sharp major, Chopin Arabesques on Johann Strauss's "Blue Danube Waltzes," Schulz-Emler...