Word: fontainebleau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copeland), 39, is the youngest son of a Brooklyn storekeeper who thought his name was Kaplan, until an immigration official wrote it to suit his own ears. Copland is tall, energetic, large-nosed, engagingly toothy. He began studying music at 13. In the early 19205, as a student at Fontainebleau (first pupil of famed Nadia Boulanger), he was a highbrow Gershwin, wading in the shallow stream of jazz. Then he plunged into the acid eddies of dissonance and atonality, emerged with the reputation of being one of the least understandable of U. S. musicians. Today, Copland has begun writing music...
...only occasionally before led an orchestra in public. What made her interesting to Boston music lovers was her reputation as one of the most famous composition teachers of her generation. In Paris (where she heads the Ecole Normale de Musique's composition department) and in Fontainebleau (where she has long been associated with the American Conservatory), Mile Boulanger, at one time or another, has had nearly half of the better-known younger U. S. composers at her feet. Main purpose of her present Boston visit is not conducting but teaching. The news that she was to lecture...
When Webster was 13, his father left the Conservatory to take the whole family abroad. The boy was placed under the famous Pianist-Teacher Isidor Philipp, first at the American Academy at Fontainebleau, three years later at Paris Conservatory of Music. At 18, he won first prize in the Conservatory's piano competition, is still the only U. S. pianist who can boast that honor...
...heiress engaged to Igor (Ivan Lebedeff), fabulously torpid European fortune hunter. She leaves him waiting at the church to run off with Michael (Clark Gable), fabulously adroit U. S. reporter. After junketing in Europe by airplane, delivery truck and wheelbarrow, they spend a night in the palace at Fontainebleau. Michael then tells Sally simultaneously that 1) he loves her and 2) he has been using their escapade to make headlines in the U. S. Sally takes up with Michael's gullible rival reporter (Franchot Tone). Michael follows her, effects a reconciliation. Rash Sally falls into the clutches...
...close of the World War a citizen of the United States of America, John D. Rockefeller Jr., contributed by his magnificent liberalities to the restoration of the chateau and park of Versailles, the palaces of Trianon and their gardens, the Cathedral of Reims and the château of Fontainebleau. In inscribing here the name of John D. Rockefeller Jr. the government of the Republic has wished to show the gratitude of the French people...