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...GONCOURT JOURNALS-Edmond & Jules de Goncourt; edited and translated by Lewis Galantiere-Doubleday, Doran...
...winter of 1849 two young brothers arrived in Paris to make their literary fortune. Polished, aristocratic, neurasthenic, comfortably off, Edmond (27) and Jules (19) were an extraordinarily close corporation. They not only lived together in nearly continuous amity until death dissolved their partnership, they collaborated in all their writing, thought alike on nearly every subject and kept a joint diary. Little of their 30-odd collaborations-plays, novels, history, criticism-has survived into the 20th Century, but their Journals may be counted on to keep their memories green. Much of that racy record is still withheld. From the material...
...Goncourt brothers never married, prided themselves on sharing a Rubens-esque blonde mistress. (Editor Galantiere raises eyebrows at this, suggests that in this case, too, Edmond was a dispassionate observer.) But that they were men of the world, not mere bourgeois scriveners, their journal amply witnesses. They were as much at home in a princess' salon as in an actress' dressing-room, describe each with equal skill...
...Alexander Smallens made the score taut and exciting, shared honors with Stage Director Ernst Lert who has produced creditable Salomes at Freiburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Basle, Milan. Manhattan applauded the ingenuity with which Lert changed the Stadium platform into an Oriental terrace and clothed the singers in costumes out of Edmond Dulac...
...shyly and demurely in ballet tulle. They can kick and whirl giddily to shrieking brass. Exact, machine-like execution has made the Rockettes known wherever U. S. precision dancing is known and many a strict balletomane takes the organization seriously. New glory came last week to the Rockettes when Edmond Labbé, general commissioner of the Paris Exposition, picked them out to dance at the Exposition's international dance festival July 2. The Rockettes are the first U. S. dance troupe officially invited to appear in France. They will represent the U. S. on a program that includes such...