Word: pompadour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope shies away from throughout. Most of the fun derives from his attempts to extricate himself from tight spots with cracks like, "I gotta go now--just remembered I left my horse outside double-parked." In addition, Paramount manages to overwhelm Hope with Joan Caulfield, Marjorie Reynolds, a Mme. Pompadour whose personality is on view only briefly, and a Hollywood-version Spanish Court filled with blondes...
When Madame de Pompadour's pet Comte de Buffon began the first encyclopedic natural history, he simplified his task by casually describing each species in terms of one specimen. Two centuries later, Picasso has embellished the Count's manuscript in the same spirit: by etching each creature with easy, sometimes careless familiarity, as if it were an ancient inhabitant of his own private park...
...18th Century death seemed "selfconscious . . . with . . . eyes less on God than on the bystanders." When the priest rose to leave Mme. Pompadour's bedside, she stopped him. "One moment, M. le Curé," she said, "and we will depart together." Cracked Voltaire, when a lamp flared in his death chamber: "The flames? Already...
...Scripps-Howard's Howard for checking, got it back with marginal notes that disagreed with Stowe on several points. One Howard comment: "Napoleon, huh? Nap was a little runt and I'm nearly 5 feet 7 inches! He had a cowlick and I still have a pompadour...
Died. Max Reinhardt, 70, famed theatrical producer (The Miracle); of paralysis and pneumonia, after a stroke; in Manhattan. Born near Vienna, the solemn prodigy with the wire-grey pompadour clicked in his first stage role (1893), soon became Berlin's outstanding director. Once praised for the intimate drama, at his Salzburg Festivals (begun in 1920) he out-dreamed a Barnum with his decor, employed huge casts and invited huge guest lists to his Castle Leopoldskron. Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made...