Word: chaillot
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...opening week of a month's concert tour of Europe, at Paris' Palais de Chaillot, Crooner Nat ("King") Cole packed in the locals, racked up a whopping $10,000 gross in one big night. The house was his, in some individual cases hysterically, and foremost among his backstage admirers was glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich, who this week will begin her own tour of West Germany...
Duel of Angels (translated and adapted by Christopher Fry from the French of Jean Giraudoux) was the last play written before his death in 1944, by the wittily ironic, aromatically pessimistic author of The Madwoman of Chaillot and Tiger at the Gates. It is a suavely chill farewell -a glass of iced champagne held in almost as cold a hand. Called Pour Lucrece in French, it offers-in the Aix-en-Provence of 1868-variations on the old tale of the violated Roman matron who, after bidding her family avenge her, committed suicide. It opens in the best Giraudoux style...
...matter of fact, Mr. Capp, it was only after you disassociated yourself from Falk that he offered us in 1957 a season0of nothing but good, plays: Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. He lost money; and last summer he lowered the quality of his choices somewhat, and still lost. So he threw in the towel...
Ordinarily allotting little time to frivolity, France's austere President Charles de Gaulle unbent visibly at a benefit ball held under Justice Ministry auspices in Paris' Palais de Chaillot. Limiting his decorations solely to the Legion of Honor, Old Soldier de Gaulle smiled properly and offered affable greetings to Movie Luminaries Yul (The Sound and the Fury) Brynner, Sophia (The Black Orchid) Loren, Maurice (Count Your Blessings) Chevalier, William (The Bridge on the River Kwai) Holden, Cary (An Affair to Remember) Grant...
...NATO ambassadors in Paris one day last week went a brusque message: "Emergency." Within the hour, the ambassadors gathered around a big green conference table in the Palais de Chaillot. NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak put it to them bluntly. "At stake," said he, "is the very reputation of NATO itself...