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What bothered Romans was the sordidness of Henze's Manon & Co. in contemporary setting. And they found the patience of Manon's wronged lover, Armand, especially intolerable. When Manon betrayed him for the last time, he sang, "I can stand it no more!" and the audience, almost as one, howled back, "Neither can I!" Even the old gentlemen of the Hunt and Chess clubs, who occupied stage boxes, stood up and yelled "basta!" (enough!) with the gang in the balcony. At times, the only indications that music was being performed were the movements of singers' mouths...
...years of hobnobbing with fight managers and lesser figures of the pugilistic trade, Sports Editor Dan Parker of the N.Y. Daily Mirror has developed a fine ear for Manhattan's ringside speech and idiom. This week, in his column, Parker gave a health report on Armand Weill, manager of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, as told by "Al" Weill himself...
Double Jeopardy. In Quebec, a month after her husband was locked up for threatening her with an ax, Mrs. Armand Beland asked a city judge to send him home, added: "Would it be possible to have the ax back? The St. Vincent de Paul Society has given us some wood and we have no ax to split...
Last week Dr. Armand-Delille was probably sorry, because myxomatosis was pullulating over most of France, killing up to 99% of the wild rabbits. Dead rabbits littered the roads. Sick rabbits with horribly swollen heads hopped feebly under the wheels of cars. Fields and woods along the Loire stank with decaying bodies. The epizootic showed no signs of slowing down; it was approaching the Belgian and Spanish frontiers and would probably spread through all of mainland Europe...
National Calamity. Myxomatosis is now a fighting word in France, and Professor Armand-Delille is regarded as something of a public enemy. French furriers see a bleak future ahead with no more cheap rabbitskins to glamorize into expensive-looking furs. French hunting (it was mostly rabbits) has been almost destroyed. Manufacturers of guns and ammunition are despondent. The injured parties have organized an "Association de Défense contre la Myxomatose...