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Born 65 years ago in Nyack, N.Y., Hopper has been following the painter's road for nearly half a century. He was lucky enough to study with Robert Henri, whose "Ashcan School" of urban realism neatly fitted his own natural bent, and he later made three trips to Paris (where he imitated the impressionists but made no contact with young moderns like Picasso). For a long time Hopper's road was a rocky one. He sold only two paintings in 23 years, supported himself by doing commercial illustrations, which he hated. Says Hopper: "I was a rotten illustrator...
Married. Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle, 26, French naval lieutenant, only son of Charles de Gaulle; and Henriette Marie Josephe Clemence de Montalembert, 19, svelte daughter of one of France's first families; in Poncin, France...
...Paris, a couple of dozen writers and painters-including Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse -dutifully responded to a cable from Charles Chaplin asking them to protest the deportation* to Germany of Hollywood Composer Hanns Eisler. To the Paris Embassy the celebrities sent their message: please let Eisler use his visa to France, where "we expect [him] to write the music for the film Alice in Wonderland." Said Cocteau: "If Eisler's music is good, who cares about his politics? . . . Politics are dirty. Art is pure...
...Tilsitt, off the Champs-Elysées, garbage is normally collected on one side of the street by Henri Paul Sangnier, on the other by Paul Dornand. Last fortnight, Sangnier struck; Dornand did not. The Rue de Tilsitt's housewives solved the problem by leaving all the garbage cans on Dornand's side. For several days Dornand did two men's work, Sangnier none...
...early spring French Ambassador to Washington Henri Bonnet and Oscar Lange, Polish U.N. delegate, will speak in public meetings of the Laboratory...