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Irma La Douce. Elizabeth Seal emerges as a delightful streetwalker-and street dancer-in a jaunty French musical that fills its Pernod bottles with the milk of human kindness.
Winnie Ille Pu, by A. A. Milne, translated into Latin by Alexander Lenard. Children who read Latin will find the adventures of Pu, Porcellus and Ior delightful, and laggards who trotted through Caesar years ago will derive much pleasure-or at least prestige, if the book is seen about the...
Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. The final volume of Lady Diana's autobiography shows again her delightful ability to make real people sound like Waugh characters, a gift all the more impressive when one understands that "Duckling," for instance, is Winston Churchill, and "Wormwood" is Charles de...
Anouilh's nihilistic chatter, as long as furiously paced and highly stylized suicides, seductions, and wit keep it from self seriousness, is delightful. The characters are stereotypes, and the ironies are always pleasant. (Th General's friend, Dr. Bonfant, announces that life must be lived like a cavalry charge, and...
Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. Lady Diana has the delightful ability to make real people seem like Waugh characters, but there is a touch of sadness to the third volume of her autobiography, in which the brightest of the Bright Young People of the '20s says goodbye...