Word: dauphinate
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...time his people play murder. A brash, coarse, well-heeled American salesman (Pat Hingle), whose car has broken down, asks a snowy night's lodging in a Swiss chalet. There he finds a retired judge (Ludwig Donath), a retired prosecutor (Max Adrian) and a retired defense lawyer (Claude Dauphin) who meet regularly to dine well and then stage trials-in a "Court of the Unconscious, where the law does not reach"-of various living or historical characters. Invited to stand trial for murder, the American, equally cocksure of his innocence and his smartness at games, accepts. Under steady grilling...
...shot through with Marxist analysis. With such qualities Jean-Paul Sartre's Crime of Passion seemed an unlikely play for TV. But viewers in the New York area saw it last week, in a full-length and absorbing production, well acted by a cast that included Claude Dauphin and Betsy von Furstenberg...
...skips into history as a little girl "playing at marriage" in the Schönbrunn Palace galleries with a little boy prodigy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She was only 14 when her mother and Louis XV sealed their Franco-Austrian alliance by giving her in marriage to the French Dauphin. "Has she any bosom?" asked the aging wolf Louis XV of the emissary who helped arrange the marriage. "Sire, I did not take the liberty of carrying my eyes so far," replied the courtier. "You are a fool," laughed the monarch. "It's the first thing one looks...
...coach and gave him an airy kiss, the 15-year-old "booby" only shifted gawkily from foot to foot; after the nuptials, two days later, he seemed mainly interested in the huge wedding feast. "Don't overload your stomach tonight," warned the old King. "Why not?" replied the Dauphin. "I always sleep better after a good supper...
VICENTE URIBE Dauphin...