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Great Expectations. In Douai, France, police who arrested Accountant Théophile Dieux, 60, for stealing two bricks from a building under construction, followed him home, found his basement stuffed with bricks, timber, nails, iron bars, flooring, window frames, lime, paint, nuts & bolts, heard him explain that he had spent the last 32 years gathering items on his way home from work in order to build a country house, but the process had been so slow that the tools he stole 20 years ago to do the job are now completely rusted away...
Gone was Madame Baby's; gone was Lillian Russell (whose sleekly gowned and strategically bulging figure was not unlike her namesake's); her menage at 92 Ca-dieux Street could entertain whole conventions of tourists at once. Gone also was Madame Cesar's in the more exclusive West End. Only a memory was Madame Alice's where employes and customers alike had been required to wear evening dress...
...continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in France Götterddmmerung becomes Le Crepuscule des Dieux. In England and the U. S. opera is usually given in its original language. But from time to time British and U. S. producers have interested themselves in the idea of translated opera and have tried out performances, even entire seasons, of opera in English...
...Amphitryon 39" is the name given to the next offering of the French Film Committee. The picture was known in France by the name of "Les Dieux S' amusent." It will be presented on Thursday and Friday at four performances on each...
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