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Into the small hours of the morning last week Antonio Sanchez sat with his friends in a Madrid café, clutching his umbrella, sipping pale glasses of manzanillo, and arguing about the bullfighters' war. Antonio Sanchez once was a matador but it had been many a year since he clipped a coleta in his hair and stepped into the ring. Finally the gathering broke up and Antonio Sanchez walked home to save money. Near the central market he heard shouts and a great splintering of wood. Mad as a bullring champion was a snorting beef bull that had escaped...
Thus the Superintendents of Schools in Austria last week attempted to pick up the pieces and carry on ordinary life. In Vienna, too, children put on their sweaters to go skating in the Stadt Park. Cafés and cinemas could stay open. Police cleared the barbed wire barricades from the streets and out in the suburbs householders went back to their shell torn apartment houses. More than 1,000 men, women and children lay dead. The Nazis might strike on the morrow. Austria might have only a few weeks more of independence. A new world war might be brewing...
Then came the Spahis. Just before midnight the Algerian cavalrymen in their scarlet and white bournouses charged down with drawn sabres and drove the mob back up the Rue Royale to the Madeleine. Sedate Weber's Café became an emergency hospital. Ancient waiters carried the wounded in from the streets, ripped their aprons and napkins for bandages. Passing doctors operated on the restaurant tables...
...itinerant carnival (James Dunn, Lillian Roth, Cliff Edwards, June Knight) straggle by hook or crook into the cast of a show being produced by an impressionable young socialite (Charles "Buddy" Rogers). After amicable bickerings between Dunn & Roth and Rogers & Knight, and after the efforts of a villainous café proprietor to commit the cardinal sin of preventing the show from going on, the first night is a huge success. A handsome and unusually rowdy adaptation of the musicomedy that played in Manhattan last winter, Take a Chance repeats most of the sketches that were successful on the stage. Good...
There was a cabinet crisis, the franc was supposed to be in danger and Paris was on the qui vive last week, but sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun did not hurry through his luncheon. After the cheese, the fruit, the steaming café noir and the exquisite fine, there would be plenty of time to send one of M. le President's long-snouted Renault cars around to fetch a successor to fallen Premier Edouard Daladier (TIME, Oct. 30). When the limousine went out at last it sped to the Navy Ministry. There a great gourmet...