Word: boues
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Perhaps that mirror is blurred by tropical humidity and nostalgie de la boue. Whatever the reason, the French view of Southeast Asia is less wide- and wild-eyed than Oliver Stone's version in Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July. The perspective in Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Lover is as cloistered in its 1920s Saigon love nest as the French were from awareness of the impending revolution. Pierre Schoendoerffer's Dien Bien Phu (yet to open in the U.S.) meticulously restages the climactic French defeat as if it were all about artillery and not national destinies...
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Raoul Jobin, tenor; Renee Doria, soprano; Vina Bovy, soprano; Geori Boue, soprano; Fanely Revoil, mezzo-soprano; Louis Musy, baritone; Andre Fernet, bass, Charles Soix, bass; Roger Bourdin, baritone; Chorus and Orchestra of the Paris Opera-Comique, Andre Cluytens conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Offenbach's witty and brilliant opera is done to a turn, even to the sound of wine gurgling from a bottle. Recording: excellent...
Gounod: Faust (Georges Nore, tenor; Roger Rico, bass; Geori-Boue, soprano, and others; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 32 sides). Faust, with its razzle-dazzle choruses and radiant arias, brought instant fame 90 years ago to French Composer Gounod; this performance adds to Beecham's. Recording: good...
...Hard, Gemlike Flame. Many of the new esthetes determinedly marked themselves off from the crowd by what seemed to them the highest forms of both self-indulgence and self-martyrdom. They nourished what they chose to call nostalgie de la boue - "the longing for the gutter." Paul Verlaine, the outstanding poet of his day, was a diseased, perverted dipsomaniac who "wrapped his suppurating limbs ... in vile rags," lived off the earnings of prostitutes, and alternated between "maudlin ferocity [and] mawkish repentance." Accused of being decadent, he replied: "I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. ... It suggests...
...Messrs. Shubert present Fay Bainter in "First Love" with Bruce McRae in a New Comedy badly adapted by Zoe Atkins from the French play "Pile ou Face" by Louis Venneuil. Miss Bainter's gowns, unfortunately, are by Boue Soeurs...
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