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...Aicadre's asthma clinic at Deux Estaings crowd many sufferers, hypochondriacal and real. The doctor tells them flatly to help themselves?he has little use, though considerable pity, for human beings sick or well. Even Laure, his peasant-girl wife, finds him unapproachable. Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him. When, over the extravagant construction of a new wing to the clinic, she reads him the riot act, he turns away in scorn, falls off the balcony to the cement ground floor...
...Blase" and a two-piano version neatly embroidered by Peggy Cochrane and William Walker. From Paris there is Lucienne Boyer's "Parlez-Moi d'Amour" which took a prize last year for being the best popular record made in France; and colored Josephine Baker's "J'ai Deux Amours." From Germany there is a Marlene Dietrich record, "Jonny" on one side, "Peter" on the other, for people who like naughty lyrics and do not mind harsh, off-pitch singing...
...Author. Though young (29), "Daniel-Rops" (a pseudonym) has written four books, has won two prizes. His first, Notre inquietude, won the Paul Fiat; l'Ame obscure took second place in the Goncourt; Two Men in Me (Deux homines en moi) won last year's Gringoire Prize. He is a professor of literature at a French University...
...Chevrillon turned to writing. He has been a contributor for 22 years to the Revue de Paris and for 35 years to the Revue des Deux Mondes. He has written a considerable number of books, many of which are on England and English literature. Of these "Britain and the War" and "Three Studies of English Literature" have been translated into English...
...program is as follows: Le reville-matin Couperin Le bavolet flottant Couperin Rondo alla Turca Mozart Variations serieuses Mendelssohn Fourth Sonata Scriabine Rigaudon, from "Le tombeau de Couperin" Ravel Alborada del graciosco Chopin Nocurne Chopin Deux ecossaises Chopin Hungarian Rhapsody number 13 Liszt