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- Cheri
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- (SEPTEMBER 2, 1929)
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- Cheri--Gabrielle Colette. At its worst more artificial than
- sophisticated, at its best moving to a degree, especially if
- the reader can read vicariously, Cheri is a novel of pre-War
- Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten
- illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich
- political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is
- in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where
- "editions" are smaller than in the U.S.
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- Good wines come from Burgundy and so does Mme. Gabrielle
- Colette. Colette, who acted Lea in the 1925 dramatization of
- Cheri, is the onetime wife of "Willy" (Novelist Henry
- Gauthiers-Villars) and of Biographer Henry de Jouvenel (The
- Stormy Life of Mirabeau, TIME, Aug. 5). Now free and 56, she is
- short, well-rounded, long-eyed. she likes good food, the
- Mediterranean, the wildcats she keeps in her small but colorful
- Palais Royal flat. In literature Authoress Colette is
- distinguished for presenting the human side of animals, the
- animal side of humans.
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