Maurice Maeterlinck
Maurice Maeterlinck (mm=33) was a Belgian propaganda writer, used in program Symbolism (Modernism) with jesuit Emil Verhaeren, Stephane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Stefan George, Alexander Scriabin, promoted by Papus and jesuit rosicrucian Joséphin Péladan (poet as priest). He was educated by the jesuits. He collaborated with Claude Debussy on opera Pelléas et Mélissande (also used for a piece of Arnold Schoenberg, who lived near Shirley Temple). He was promoted by Le Figaro, controlled by Russian secret service Okhrana. In 1908 he wrote the play The Blue Bird, performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia with Konstantin Stanislavsky as director. |
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Stanislavsky pioneered method acting (use of improvisation and subconscious), later taught at Elia Kazan's Group Theater (Will Geer) and Actors Studio.
In 1910 he wrote the play Mary Magdalene. In 1911 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, nominated by Carl Bildt (ancestor of Carl Bildt).
He married Georgette Leblanc, sister of Maurice Leblanc (Legion of Honour), who created the character Arsène Lupin (similar to AC Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, reference to Cagliostro, adapted into Japanese manga Lupin III). She played in Paul Dukas' opera adaptation of Maeterlink's Ariane et Barbe-Blue. She was a friend of Jean Cocteau and had a relationship with George Gurdjieff.
He was president of PEN International (HG Wells, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Atwood, Octavio Paz) and member of the Order of Leopold (Saxe-Coburgs).
Sergei Rachmaninoff composed music to his work Monna Vanna.
On 4/20 (birthday of Hitler) 1950 mind control Project Bluebird was initiated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC.
born 8/29/1862.
died 5/6/1949.
Adaptations of The Blue Bird
1940 The Blue Bird Shirley Temple (trained by Max Reinhardt) Mytyl Walter Lang (Montparnasse art scene) Gale Sondergaard (the Cat and the Canary with Bob Hope) Nigel Bruce Eddie Collins (Dopey in Disney's Snow White with blue bird symbolism.)
1976 The Blue Bird Jane Fonda as The Night (Nuit) George Cukor Elizabeth Taylor Ava Gardner (married to Knight of Malta Frank Sinatra of The Manchurian Candidate) Will Geer (partner of Harry Hay OTO) Cycely Tyson (married to Miles Davis) 20th Century Fox