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...World of Maurice Chevalier (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A first-rate reconstruction of the 60-year career of France's finest performer, including some wonderful old film clips of Folies Bergère Stars Mistinguette and Josephine Baker, plus bits from Chevalier's current U.S. tour...
...FRENCH PAVILION will consist mainly of three buildings looking like a children's game in their pure geometrical forms: a rectangle housing Maxim's restaurant, an immense egg-shaped ellipsoid (the largest structural ellipse ever built), which will shelter a 1,500-seat theater for the Folies-Bergére, and a pyramid in which visitors will view "The Treasures of Versailles," a huge collection of paintings and art objects...
...Oberstdorf, he turned in the longest jumps of the day. On his very first jump at Innsbruck's Berg Isel ski jump, site of next year's Olympic jumping, Engan broke the hill record with a 298-ft. jump. Fog and snow made a nightmare of Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen a few days later. But Engan still went 292 ft.-16 ft. past the "critical point." or safety limit of the hill. After the first three hills, he had the championship sewed up. "All he needs," said a competitor, "is to toss his shoes over the edge...
...Purree, an 86-minute UPAnimated cattoon, is all about Mademoiselle Mewsette, a pretty little kitty who has never seen the city. In her catnaps she dreams of the Felines Bergère, the Place Catalle and the Mewlin Rouge, so one day she departs for Purree in pussuit of happiness. Her boy friend, a hair-trigger mouser called Jaune Tom, hurries off to Paris as soon as he gets the bad mews, but he arrives too late to avert catastrophe: Mewsette has al ready fallen in with Meowrice Percy Beaucoup, a sinister allée cat who has designs...
...elevate the orchestra to a position of new importance, where it would become the main commentator on the action. His opera's moonstruck tale of love and fratricide, which returned to the Metropolitan last week after an absence of two seasons, had a staunch admirer in Alban Berg, who acknowledged that Pelléas provided him with the model for his own tradition-smashing Wozzeck. But for all his growing success, Debussy's music earned him practically no money. Most of the time he depended on handouts from his few friends...