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(1920s) Cheri
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
Books
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Cheri
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<p>(SEPTEMBER 2, 1929)
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<p> 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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<p> 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.</p>
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