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...mile marathon that started in Metz, will cut through a corner of Belgium, down the middle of France to Marseille and the Riviera, back through Geneva to the finish line in Paris. Along the route some 20 million fans will shout themselves hoarse with cries of "Allez Bo-bet!", "Vas-y Barbotin!") "Bonne chance, Louis...
Died. Mme. Mary Astor Paul Allez, 61, onetime Philadelphia society belle whose wartime services (directing espionage, harboring Allied airmen, transmitting messages to U.S. agents), as a member ("Pauline") of the French underground, won her the U.S. Medal of Freedom and a Chevalier's ribbon in France's Legion of Honor; of cancer; in Paris...
...track, the horses run clockwise, the clotheshorses from the maisons de haute couture run the gauntlet of admiring eyes, and bettors can be heard exchanging tips on both in Urdu, Sudanese, Hindustani or Cambodian. But from under the toppers and turbans in the grandstand comes only an occasional listless Allez! or Vite!; it is across the turf on the grassy reaches of Longchamp's infield that the passion of Parisian racing is concentrated...
From the word Allez, 51-year-old Bourdet was fighting mad, lunged wildly at 61-year-old Bernstein's chest and abdomen. At first Bernstein took it easy, then gradually matched his opponent's aggressiveness, finally gave Bourdet a poke in the arm. This ended the fight. But not for Bourdet. Snapped he: "This is only a theatre duel." Begging in vain for another go, he finally strode fuming off the field, without shaking Bernstein's hand...
...Allez-Oop is the cry form clever comedians and lively chorines to lift a mediocre revue into a summer hit. The music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...