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Canada's best known junior misses, the Dionne quintuplets, turn twelve this week. Yvonne, Marie, Emilie, Annette, Cécile dolled up to share Papa Oliva Dionne's knee (see cut) and a single big birthday cake. But no presents. Other years there had been five cakes and gifts of ponies, bicycles, etc. This year the Quints decided that the money should go to help feed children in Europe...
...Random Harvest, so I do not know whether Greer Garson is bowlegged. Since the picture published in TIME (March 19) is a side pose of her legs, I don't think it offers sufficient proof. Would appreciate TIME'S publishing another picture of Miss Garson. CÉCILE BOISCLAIR Manchester...
...CILE BOISCLAIR Manchester...
...Monte Carlo last week death came to the most famous woman composer who ever lived. Frail, white-haired, 86-year-old Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade had been bedridden with a bone disease for more than a decade. Deprived of her royalties by the German occupation (her Jewish publishers in Paris had been liquidated), she died in comparative obscurity. The era that her fragile, saccharine little piano pieces (most famed: The Scarf Dance) represented had long since closed. Hers had been the age of rubber plants, stereoscopic views, and parlor trances over Ethelbert Kevin...
Born in Paris, Cécile Chaminade started composing as a child, dedicated her first works (a group of nocturnes and "slumber songs") to her pet dogs and cat. She took lessons in composition from Benjamin Godard. Always a facile melodist, Chaminade soon rolled up a list of over 550 compositions, which stand in the same relation to Frederic Chopin as strawberry soda does to cognac. Many of them (The Flatterer, Pas des Amphores, La Zingara, Valse Caprice, Air de Ballet, etc.) got an international reputation...