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After a lifetime of producing pictures meant to relax the looker-"like a comfortable armchair"-old Modern Henri Matisse is at work finishing his designs for a Dominican chapel in the Provençal village of Vence. Not too far away, at Assy in the French Alps, Père Couturier has made the art of Moderns Fernand Léger, Jean Lurçat and Georges Rouault shine clean and fresh in the new mountain church (TIME, June...
...Jofroi, a prewar Pagnol comedy based on a story by Jean Giono, proves the brightest thing in the package. Jofroi (well played by Vincent Scotto) is a hidebound old peasant, suspicious, ignorant and proud. The old man sells his orchard to his neighbor, Fonse (Henri Poupon), then pulls a gun when he sees Fonse uprooting precious trees. When the village priest forces a compromise that will give Fonse the orchard after Jofroi dies, the old man announces that he will commit suicide to put his death on Fonse's conscience. After some 30 suicide attempts, he intimidates Fonse into...
...Washington cocktail party, Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mme. Henri Bonnet, wife of the French ambassador, arrived in identical hats (an elephant-grey number embellished with shell pearls and sequin-dotted veil). The two ladies, both schooled in diplomacy, merely spoke politely...
Chopin was interested. Thalberg agreed. Liszt's old teacher, onetime Beethoven Pupil Carl Czerny, promised to come from Vienna. The others were Thalberg's teacher, Johann Peter Pixis, Pianist-Composer Henri Herz and Liszt himself...
...Henri Matisse's charcoal Seated Nude in a chair was a smudgy, uncertain study with none of Rouault's power. The viewer could barely tell the flesh from the upholstery, and the girl looked as impersonal as a pillow. But all that had been part of the artist's intention. By smudging out instead of neatly erasing his first hesitant strokes, he gave the picture a hot-off-the-easel look that it would otherwise have lacked. By sticking to foggy greys and muffling the girl's personality in the armchair's embrace, he reduced...