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WHRB will broadcast classical music from 8 P.M. to 12 Midnight every night during Easter Vacation. (C) M L 5047 14.5 Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto #2, (C) L 5309 33.7 Calippa, String Quartet in G Minor, (A) Ang 45001 13.2; Bach, Easter Oratorio, (Bach...
...ANGéLIQUE (890 pp.) -Sergeanne Golon-Llpplncoff...
Once upon a time, in the dank and gloomy castle of Monteloup in old Poitou, there lived an impecunious baron and his daughter Angélique, a wild and barefoot sprite who played, perhaps more than she should, with the peasant boy Nicholas. Looking to Angélique's beauty to save him from ruin, the baron betrothed her to the Comte de Peyrac de Morens, known as the Great Lame Devil of Languedoc, who was said to be so ugly that girls ran away when he passed by on his great black horse. As it turned out. Ang...
There she lived with beggars, cutthroats, cutpurses, dwarfs and cripples, including the leering, one-eyed gangleader Calembredaine, who had a "nightmare face, blurred by long strands of greasy hair [and] marked by a violet wen.'' It was Calembredaine who in a frightful brawl won Angélique as his mistress and carried her unconscious to his lair. When Calembredaine tore off wig and wen, who should he be but Nicholas, the ever-loving peasant friend from old Poitou...
...Angélique, already a U.S. bestseller, is an enormous fairy tale for adult children, of whom there are legions. The French eagerly took to Angélique as a serial in France-Soir. It ran for more than a year, time enough to catch a breath between one night's adventure and the next. The reader of the 890-page U.S. translation must pace himself, and should be warned that the author is one up on him from the beginning. Novelist "Sergeanne" Colon is not one person but two-an apparently indefatigable French man-and-wife team (Serge...