Word: animaux
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...assure that Le Club des Animaux de Compagnie will provide a proper environment for the pet, customers must answer detailed questions. "Is your pet on a diet? Is he fussy about certain foods? Is he unable to endure a ringing telephone? Does he sleep at the foot of the bed, in the kitchen, in an armchair?" Data obtained, a kindly club employee picks up the animal and delivers it to a temporary home where in most cases a beast of similar breed but of the opposite sex awaits it. For an extra $2 or $3 per day, the pet receives...
...France's most popular composer, partly because there was no political blemish on him. He holed up on his 17th Century Vouvray estate (where he also makes wine), refused to play for the Germans, and stalled them off on the production of a new ballet, Les Animaux Modèles, by telling them repeatedly: "Ah, it is not yet finished." Now finished, it is a Parisian favorite...
Composer Francis Poulenc, whose frothy, nose-thumbing ballet and cinema music had been the rage of the prewar Left Bank, was last week the most popular musician in Paris. His latest ballet score, Les Animaux Modeles (commissioned by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), had been prevented from delivery by the German occupation. But when the German authorities offered to produce it at the Paris Opera, Poulenc refused coldly, maintained an unimpeachable record of resistance...
...says one, "je n'aime pas le cri de ces animaux." Better than Indians, says the other. By the way, says the first, you haven't seen any snakes tonight, have you? No, not tonight-"Ce sont de sales bétes, ces serpents a sonnettes. . . " At the end of the Revolution, Lafayette cries: "C'est la victoire . . . l'alliance entre les Etats Unis et la France a triomphe!" Last program is a grand roundup of U. S. noises, including the roar of "les chutes du Niagara" birds twittering, a bear's grunt. Coney Island...
...headliner", of course, was Saint-Saens' widely heralded "Carnaval des Animaux", strangely enough it fulfilled, even exceeded the high expectations of its hearers. With such economy of means, with never a descent to mere noise, with real beauty, Saint-Saens skips from hen's cackle to donkey's bray, from pianists; technical studies to carping critics' chatter; a masterful piece cl work, and eloquently played. From double-bass to flute the orchestra was superb, Mr. Bedetti, as usual, standing out as a supreme artist. May we not hear their fine sketches again this year...