Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Venice (Sept. 11-25), which does not specialize in big-name performers at its respected annual modern-music fete, nevertheless lias its big-name composers. This year's big event: the world premiere of Prokofiev's The Flaming Angel. The opera was finished in the '20s but never got a Russian performance, presumably because of its religious theme...
...Life. The son of a rice farmer, Phibun developed an early aversion to the malodorous paddies, decided on a military career. As a bright young lieutenant in the Siamese army, he was rewarded with a four-year scholarship to study gunnery at Fontainebleau. France. In Paris in the '20s, he became friendly with Pridi Phanomyong, a Siamese political-science student who lived in the same pension; the two were destined to become political Siamese twins for the next 30 years. At the tables of the Café de Flore and the Deux Magots on the Left Bank, Phibun, Pridi...
...angels among 65 Air Force men at the 19 U.S. bases in Britain. Fired by the $50,000 the flyers shoveled into it, Jazz Train screeched into London's Piccadilly Theater last week and had critics shouting that it was the best musical since Blackbirds in the '20s...
Sense of the House. Postwar Oxford in the early '20s found mustachioed Captain Eden a serious young man, diffident and withdrawn. "He was one of the quiet ones," a college servant recalls. Eden collected modern paintings, walked off with first class honors in Persian and Arabic. On one occasion during World War II, he startled a regiment of Turkish regulars by addressing them in their own vernacular...
...syndicated verse-it used to be said that he was the only man in the U.S. who could wire a poem collect. There are also recollections of college days at Vanderbilt. But mostly, the book is packed with nostalgic stories that call back the champions of the golden '20s...