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...critics were downright disgusted when Gian Carlo Menotti's new opera buffa was first performed in Paris last October. Le Dernier Sauvage had a libretto the French found far from funny, and its music they found distressingly short on substance. "A misery," said Le Figaro. But the Paris production was starved and skimpy, and Menotti's countless champions comforted themselves in the faith that The Last Savage would find a happier habitat in New York. Last week the Savage arrived at the Met in a production so beautiful that Menotti cheerfully conceded he would have no excuse...
...long history were the purchase, in 1898, of the list of Boston's now defunct Roberts Brothers, and a joint publishing agreement in 1925 with the Atlantic Monthly Co. The Roberts list brought Little, Brown properties like Poet Emily Dickinson, Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson (whose Ramona was the dernier cri of the '80s), Edward Everett Hale (The Man Without a Country), Louisa M. Alcott.* Under the arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Press, the Atlantic Monthly acts as a kind of Little, Brown scout. This has brought Little, Brown books like Mazo de la Roche's Jama novels...
...Dernier Cri. On the Manhattan market appeared a cookie jar that automatically yelled "Mamma!" whenever it was tampered with...
...least twice a month for 15 years, Paris letters signed "Genêt" have appeared in The New Yorker and have been among the best things in it. In a style so well turned that epigrams seemed pure condescension, Genêt has written of everything Parisian from the dernier cri to the dernière crise without slipping from a fashionable tone...
...Dernier Milliardaire," scheduled to run at the Fine Arts till Christmas, is full enough of barbed satire, but instead of one great big thorn there are lots of little prickles. The trouble seems to be that a Frenchman has no where to aim his darts, and so he scaters them with carefree abandon...