Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sipping white rum and pure syrup poured over ice, Martinique's mulatto intellectuals last week argued politics in Fort-de-France's breezy cafes, but the politics were French rather than Caribbean. Over breakfasts of cafe creme avec croissants, citizens of Pointe-a-Pitre, commercial center of Guadeloupe, discussed the annual four-day bicycle race partly sponsored by the French Cycling Federation. Since 1946 the islands have been departments of France d'outre-mer (overseas) rather than colonies, and their citizens have wholeheartedly accepted the notion that the 4,250 miles of ocean separating them from...
...knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor in the U.S., he won his greatest success in Europe, became the idol of Paris cafe jazz buffs, who named 40 or more children after him. High point of a flamboyant career was his 1951 marriage to German-born Elizabeth Ziegler. Ten jazz bands played wedding music; flocks of jazz fans sang and danced in the streets; doves and champagne surrounded the couple as they jogged along...
...essay. Also included in this issue is a short piece in French, which, after reading, I leave for the more esoteric to interpret, and an enigmatic scrawl on art and Ezra Pound written for a very special "in-group" to discuss over their Turkish tea at the Cafe Mozart...
...French Riviera, full of charmingly frivolous creatures of the Twenties ("They do chatter so!") gaily bent on little more than gossip, the Charleston and, of course, boys. The boys pop in and out innocuously enough as the shifts from the school to le plage and finally to the Cafe Patallon for the ball. It's all good...
PRIX FÉMINA. Author Franchise Mallet-Joris deserved a prize, said the critics, but not for her prizewinning book, L'Em-pire Céleste, which they generally dismissed as "good, meaty, lending-library stuff." The story of a poor cafe pianist who realizes his mediocrity after friends read his diary, L'Empire seemed little more than mediocre itself. Critical consensus: had the elderly ladies of the Fémina jury been on their toes, they might have given Franchise the prize for her Illusionist (1951), the story of a young girl's love affair with...