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...southern Algerian garrison town of Colomb-Béchar one morning last week crept a strange train on an expensive errand. Its locomotive, heavily armored, was preceded by six freight cars loaded with sandbags. Its average speed on its way to Ain-Sefra, another garrison town 170 miles to the northeast, was a hesitant 13 m.p.h. Whenever it reached a bridge, invariably a bridge thrown up temporarily by French Army engineers-it slowed down to a walk...
...Coal fields of 100 million tons were found far inland near Colomb-Béchar, are already producing 350,000 tons a year...
...present trip to the New World, Barrault began by saluting another man's more famous voyage there. Christophe Colomb, written by the late French poet (and Ambassador to the U.S.) Paul Claudel, celebrates the discoverer of America as no American playwright has ever bothered to do. Not a play but a pageant, a piece of "total theater," Christophe Colomb employs language, music, choruses, crowds, ballet, a movie screen, a narrator. Nor is Colomb just biographical. It is encrusted with philosophic thought, is suffused with Catholic Poet Claudel's intense religious feeling, and indeed concludes with Queen Isabella...
After the fashion of pageants, Christophe Colomb-particularly for those a little deficient in French-had its oratorical longueurs, its narrative doldrums. In Actor Barrault it had a Columbus more gamin than heroic. But Director Barrault proved an accomplished showman, and here and there-as in two wittily etched court scenes-a brilliant one. And with Darius Milhaud's lovely music-now pertly dancelike, now swelling or exalted-Christophe Colomb proved an uneven but curiously memorable occasion...
...retired to devote all of his time to writing. Although most of his plays were heavy with Roman Catholic symbolism and too long for staging, he became a popular as well as a critical success in later years with the postwar productions of his operas, Christophe Colomb (music by Darius Milhaud) and Joan at the Stake (music by Arthur Honegger). Claudel insisted, in his 27-year correspondence with his friend, Novelist André Gide (The Correspondence Between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide) that art must bear witness to Christ, assailed modern literary introspectionists as "horrible little terriers who put their...