Word: poet-ambassador
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...performance of the 20-year-old work, opening with Joan at the stake and flashing back and forth through her persecution, trial and condemnation, revealed the basic weakness in the libretto by France's late Poet-Ambassador (to the U.S. in 1927-33) Paul Claudel: its tendency to reduce a profound, many-faceted conflict to charcoal black and Rinso white. But Bernstein gave the music the surging, evocative reading that its subject demands, kept a near-perfect balance be tween orchestra, soloists and his acres of chorus. Actress Montealegre gave her reading with luminous conviction and a fine sense...
...from the Mauretania last week and proceeded to Washington to present his credentials as the Spanish Republic's first Ambassador to the U. S. His coming increases the literary luminosity of the Washington diplomatic corps about 50%. Though his pen may not have the surpassing grace of French Poet-Ambassador Paul Claudel, Ambassador Madariaga is a writer of first rank, a keen political commentator...
Three hours later, Poet-Ambassador Claudel delivered the French reply at the State Department, and went scuttling out muttering: "I have nothing to say, nothing to say, nothing to say." The U. S. Ambassador in Paris had telephoned to prepare Secretary Stimson for the shock. But after he had scanned the English text, he grew alarmed, almost ran to the White House to confer with the President. They hastily summoned Ogden L. Mills, the financial brains of the Treasury, and for three and a half hours these three gentlemen solemnly pondered France's reply. Eugene Meyer Jr., astute, rich...
...Popular Poet-Ambassador Paul Claudel, in Paris last week on a furlough from his Washington post, had with him his Packard...
France's Poet-Ambassador Paul Claudel let it be known last week in Washington that, inspired by conversations with Producer Max Reinhardt of Austria, he has written an opera libretto, based on the life of Christopher Columbus, for music by Darius Milhaud, French modernist. First performance: this month, in Berlin...