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...years, Entertainer Rudy Vallee has been fond of a Paris street sign that says "Rue de Vallée." When Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty suggested to Vallee that the street to his Hollywood Hills home be rechristened to match the sign, the entertainer proceeded with the rechristening-helped along by a Yorty appointment to the city traffic commission. Two of Rudy's neighbors were not amused, protesting so angrily that the embarrassed public works committee tabled the idea. Determined to carry the matter to the city council, Rudy says: "It will enhance the value of the property along...
...Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) has tried to hold open house once more with the Steins, not only at 27 rue de Fleurus where Gertrude and her brother Leo lived, but at 58 rue Madame where their older brother Michael lived with his wife Sarah. MOMA has succeeded in opening the Stein houses, yet we only get glimpses of Gertrude-we overhear only fragments of her remarks about Picasso, Cubism, Picasso, Picasso-we see Leo exclaiming, "Cezanne... Picasso's Blue Period... Matisse!" And Michael and Sarah are lost somewhere in their house that Le Corbusier built at Garches. We feel...
...fascinating historical piece of evidence is Picasso's Still Life with Calling Card (1914) showing a calling card imprinted with the two names: Miss Gertrude Stein and Miss Alice B. Toklas, living at 27 rue de Fleurus...
Daemon of History. However eccentric Gertrude Stein's theories, the flat she shared with Leo at 27 Rue de Fleurus was a salon through which the best artists and writers in France passed each Saturday. Throughout their ten years together at Rue deFleurus, Leo and Gertrude kept buying. One of their first major purchases was Young Girl with Basket of Flowers, a big blue-period Picasso nude for which they paid 150 francs ($29). Soon Gertrude owned more early Picassos than anybody else in France. Picasso dashed off a small Homage to Gertrude, 1909, a parody of Baroque ceiling...
...Paris council's measure. Said former Agriculture Minister Paul Antier, who has formed a Committee for the Defense of the Etoile: "When Winston Churchill died, there was no great rush to rename Trafalgar Square. Napoleon wasn't exactly a nobody either, and he only has a small Rue Bonaparte in the Seventh Arrondissement." There were many who doubted that De Gaulle would have wanted anything of the sort. Said Le Monde: "Nothing would be more contrary to his last wishes than de-baptizing the most famous square in Paris, if not in Europe and the world, to give...