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When she made her next appearance of the 1948-49 season, in Cinderella, London saw the change. The Daily Express reported as soberly as it could: "At the end of the lovely pas de deux ... so tense was the audience that one could hear the trickle of the tiny stage fountain above the closing notes of the clarinet." Last April, after a gala performance for Queen Elizabeth, the Evening Standard described the new Fonteyn: "Discarding the steely glitter that has sometimes divorced her from our deepest affections, she danced with simplicity, great feeling and unrivaled grace...
...they had ever seen a more lavish spectacle and dancing grace on a U.S. ballet stage. It took Conductor Constant Lambert a full five minutes to get the music in motion again after the thunderous ovation for Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann's third-act pas de deux...
Died. Anne de Gaulle, 18, invalid youngest child of Charles de Gaulle's three; of bronchial pneumonia; at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, France...
...Inner Life. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle has traveled a long way since he was "born in Lille, 57 years ago, the son of a philosophy professor. He early acquired a love of reading and learning, and at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where he has a country retreat 125 miles southeast of Paris, reading is still his main diversion. He reads and rereads the French classics, such writers as Montaigne, Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo...
When his brother, Pierre de Gaulle (whom the elections boosted to Paris' municipal council), telephoned word of the R.P.F. victory to the General's retreat at Colom-bey-les-Deux-Eglises, De Gaulle said merely: "Well, things are going faster than I thought...