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...Lattre's picture. When Nguyen Thi Ky explained that she had known a French officer in Hoa Binh in the good old days and would like to renew the acquaintanceship, the paratroopers gave her apples and cookies, sent her off to bring back her people. That night Sergeant Chef Guy Pinceau, who had jumped with his pet poodle stuffed in his leg bag, served a dinner of beefsteak, peas and condensed wine to 2,000 paratroopers in Hoa Binh. It had been the biggest drop ever in Indo-China, and another handsome victory for General de Lattre...
...reward the rich for being rich. With its soft rugs, its gilded mirrors, its glittering chandeliers and the Roman grandeur of its outsized bathtubs, the Ritz breathed an atmosphere of continental elegance calculated to soothe the wrought-up millionaire. Vials of perfume sweetened its elevators. Its food was superb (Chef M. Diat's greatest achievement: the invention of Vichyssoise in 1912), and two waiters stood by, day & night, on every floor to take care of the hunger of its guests...
Whether they can or they can't, every body at Smith seems to sing. The college supports nine singing groups and over 400 girls are in the them. There are two freshman choirs, a sophomore choir, the Glee Club, the Chamber Singers, the Chef Club, the Smithereens, the Octavians, and the Smiffenpoofs...
...What is this? Constructivist staging or what?" cried New York Times Critic Olin Downes. The Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson was equally dyspeptic; his evening at the Metropolitan Opera House reminded him of "the French chef who in serving a New England boiled dinner had carved the beets like roses and turned turnips into lilies . . ." The critics' ire and ulcers were aroused last week by the Met's new streamlined production of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, the wonderful old pair of operatic favorites...
...alive in fine sets and props; Actor Hernandez and Dean Stockwell (as the parson's ward) give unusually good performances; the script furnishes some tangy color (e.g., the visit of a brassy medicine show), and Director Jacques Tourneur flavors the corn with the poetic zeal of a French chef...