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This book, an able new translation by British Author Antonia White of the late Colette's long-famed first novel, is part of the publisher's project to bring out the author's complete works at ten-month intervals. Written by Colette when she was 22 and published in 1900, Claudine at School was an instant and scandalous success. It went through innumerable editions and became so much a byword that manufacturers flooded Paris with a Lotion Claudine, a Chapeau Claudine, a Glace-Claudine and a Parfum de Claudine. Though lacking some of the rueful insight...
Maketh Not Summer. In Billings, Mont., acquitting Mrs. Antonia Romero on a charge of harboring a vicious dog after testimony from Mailman Theodore Foos that her pooch had nibbled his thigh, Judge Otis Packwood observed: "This is another case of every dog being entitled to one bite...
Married to Part-time Painter Anne Barstow, has three children: David, 20, of the Coldstream Guards; Clarissa, 17, student at the Sorbonne; Antonia, 9. No stuffed shirt, he has an impressive reputation for ability to short-circuit gobbledygook, is a good mixer, relishes a chance to live in Washington, where he feels the steamy summer climate will be no great bother because, as he hears it: "You go from one air-conditioned room to another." Said he on his arrival: "If the prospects of peace and justice are to be good, it will depend on the extent" to which...
...Antonia Fleming is beautiful; her husband Conrad is brilliant, but as a schoolmaster once wrote on his report, "bloody-minded." Antonia holds a dinner party to celebrate the engagement of her dim son, Julian, to an even dimmer girl. Her daughter Deirdre, pregnant by one man, is about to marry another. Antonia's husband has moved elsewhere. Antonia is found at her dinner table with her devoted maid clearing away from the table the service her husband will never use again, and mooning mistily on a possible affair with a tall, thin intellectual type. It is a situation...
Chain Reaction. In Toronto, Ont., Antonia Murphy, 34, was sentenced to a year in a reformatory for stealing $908 to pay the lawyer who defended her against a charge of stealing $1,300 from her employer...