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...moments later, at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elys??es, Carol sharply replied to questions as to whether he is about to resume his royal rank. He emitted a single sentence in six languages: "I cannot answer you!" His tormentors exulted over this "admission...
Swiftly the Premier collected the resignations of the members of his Cabinet, added his own thereto, drove straight to President Doumergue at the Elys??e, and quit. For the second time within a fortnight France was without a Ministry (TIME...
From this lapse he has just recently recovered gloriously. Paris had two Mozart festivals, both in the beautiful Theâtre des Champs-Elys??es. The first of these was the venture of the Vienna Opera, complete with orchestra, singers, scenery and Herr Direktor Franz Schalk. It was part of an "official tour." Six operas were presented. There was no "modernizing," but the strictest possible adherence, to the purest Mozart traditions. Herr Schalk accompanied sections of the Don Giovanni on a harpsichord, that ancient ancestor of the pianoforte which Mozart himself loved for its faint and delicate tinkle. Restraint and sobriety...
...entrance to the Elys??e Palace, official residence of the Presidents of France, a large crowd had gathered. As the carriage passed them it commented upon the youthful appearance of the Ambassador...