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...curtains parted on the second act of La Bohème: the square outside the Café Momus, in Paris' Latin Quarter. A colorful crowd, self-conscious and unconvincingly hearty as most opera-players pretending to be real people, swarmed over the stage. The poet Rodolfo strolled in happily with his sweetheart Mimi, but his painter friend Marcello was in the dumps, and sang (in Italian): "Bring me an order of poison." He had just heard the jaunty voice of his faithless Musetta, who soon flounced in, all feathers and finery...
...master. In Ladies and Gentlemen, he has put together a fat retrospective show (246 drawings, 1926-51) of what he regards as his best cartoons. With an accent on sex almost as bold as his brush strokes, Arno scores brilliantly as a social hiss-torian of café society...
Noel Coward* sat in the front row. The Oliviers were there. So were banks of diplomats, café socialites and other famous faces. By the time the curtain went up on the first British showing of South Pacific, more than 2,300 had crowded into London's Drury Lane Theater...
...marimba in bands ranging from 20-piece earsplitters down to sextets. Trio work is something fairly new, and Red finds it "all headwork-the bass has to cover for a drummer, the guitar for clarinet or trumpet, the vibes for piano." Headwork or handwork, old Red was the uptown caf...
...Roger's old boss had thundered tellingly to the captain of gendarmes. "He can no longer be considered to be in that coffin of yours." The captain agreed, but it was much too late to call off the funeral. In honor of the great day, one of the cafés gave Roger a free breakfast. Roger set off for the cemetery. As one old friend after another recognized him, there were many touching embraces at the graveside. When Roger himself learned that many of them had chipped in to buy him a handsome gravestone, he was deeply moved...