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Heidi, Abbott and Costello, and Ludwig Bemelman's Madelaine, Saturday, March...
...Bemelman's Cucuface is a practicing continental, edition of Potter's Asquith, a man who almost never pays the dinner check, a man who rides first class and doesn't pay. After explaining to Bemelman's the importance of being important, he tags him le Prince de Baviere, and teaches him the way of the gambit...
...Bemelman's has the light touch, and this touch is usually applied to descriptions of "highly disguised actuality." Those who remember his earlier works will recall stories of gently macabre funerals, majestic dinners, elaborate parties and exotic adventures, stories told in a manner that firmly pushes fantasy into reality...
...during these sections of the book that Bemelmans is at his best Where Potter's people were academicians. Bemelman's characters are active, alive in that continental atmosphere which the author catches so successfully. When Cucuface and the director of the Restaurant Lucullus tangle over the bill, the entire staff stops operating, breathlessly waiting to see how Cucuface will get out of the bill he has so gallantly picked up. He succeeds, the gallery nods appreciatively, and goes back to its duties...
...mention, function during the summer. Information regarding these, as well as the other phases of travel and study abroad, are available at P.B.H., in the office of the Student Council, or through the N.S.A. at their New Work address. For how not to travel, chapter I of Ludwig Bemelman's "I Love You, I Love You, I Love You," is required reading