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...watch a road race from Paris to Madrid. In the U.S. a year later, a Dearborn, Mich., farmer's son was advertising his Ford as "the fastest car in the world"-and proving it by clocking 91.37 m.p.h. on the cinder-covered ice of Lake St. Clair. And it was not long before an enchanted U.S. public was thrilling to the exploits of a whole new set of heroes-Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, and the mysterious "Baron von Rickenbacher*-helmeted hotspurs who risked life and limb in the glorious pursuit of speed...
FRENCH ART SONGS (RCA Victor). Like the symbolist poets whose verses he sings, Tenor Cesare Valletti evokes sensuous, delicately colored scenes in narrow frames. There are Verlaine's Clair de Lune set to music by three composers (Claude Debussy, Gabriel Fauré and Joseph Szulc), Verlaine's C'est I'Extase by Debussy, and Baudelaire's L'lnvitation au Voyage by Henri Duparc...
...knew what was in the letter before I even opened it," said Phillip Conrad, 17, a stocky, crew-cut senior who had earned seven athletic letters at St. Clair High School, north of Detroit. "It was thin. If it's an acceptance, it's thick. If it's a rejection, it's just one sheet...
...exhibitors seemed to be cutting off their gross to spite their face, they were also cutting off-with the only and most dramatic means available-the 24% of that gross sluiced away in a special tax. "The survival of French cinema is at stake," declared Director René Clair. And though the industry suffers from many ills, he continued, "the worst problem right now is this taxation." Clair's polemics came at a wellrehearsed, Defend French Cinema Day press conference that was followed by a one-hour sympathy strike, from the producers to les script-girls, closing down...
...that finding the right voice teacher can be like finding the right spouse; one may have to court many candidates before the one-and-only turns up. "Finally, about the time I opened in Jerico-Jim a little over a year ago, I did find exactly the right teacher, Clair Gelda. She told me, 'You must be careful not to push to the point of losing the wonderful velvet on your voice.'" This "velvet," which is readily apparent in the restrained opening of "Feeling Good" in Roar of the Greasepaint, should not be confused with the quite different, if attractive...