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Selected by a preliminary competition, the 10 contestants were allowed an almost unrestricted choice of subjects. Boysen delivered a selection from Clemence Dane, while Stearns recited "The Last Lesson," a short story by Daudet, and Weinberg offered a portion of "The People, Yes," by Carl Sandburg...
...Alphonse Daudet was describing how Alsace-Lorraine was ceded to Germany in 1871. But his story might have been re-enacted last week in dozens of villages as Anschluss experts went to work on conquered Luxembourg, Alsace and Lorraine...
Died. Julie Daudet, 93, devoted widow of the late great French author Alphonse Daudet (Lettres de Mon Moulin, Tartarin de Tarascon), mother of French Royalist Leader Leon Daudet, herself a writer of books, articles; of old age; in Paris...
Soon it appears that what was intended as an absolutely honest autobiography has turned into a fearlessly candid biography of his wife. A social worker, lecturer and minor fiction writer, Edith was not (as Daudet said the wife of a writer should be) a feather bed. Petite, restless, intense, she scolded at Havelock's manners, dress, undemonstrativeness, called him a mixture of satyr and Christ, alternated between tantrums and protestations of undying love. "The worst of me is in my tongue," she reassured him, but once she kicked him in the head. He discovered strong homosexual tendencies...
Last week Léon Daudet got his way, made Author Benjamin the tenth member of the Goncourt Academy. To French observers his election meant that the Academy, originally politically independent, had at last become as reactionary as Author Daudet has been trying to make...