Word: elyse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The August sun beat down on the swarming crowds and the dusty trees along the Champs-Elysées. Never had the Folies-Bergère been more crowded. At the Louvre, tourists lined up in long, patient queues to stare at the Victory of Samothrace and the Mona Lisa...
Christiné: Phi-Phi (Soloists and orchestra of the Champs-Elysées Theater, conducted by Franck Pourcel; Westminster). This is a French operetta, vintage 1918, of the no-nudes-is-bad-nudes school. "Phi-Phi" is Athens' famed Sculptor Phidias, who as the curtain rises is out looking...
Five years ago, in the justified belief that courtesy had become a lost art in the land of the Chevalier Bayard and the Watteau shepherdess, French Psychologist Marcel Ranville organized a new order of French chivalry. L'Ordre de la Courtoisie Française. "Amiability," complained Ranville, "has given...
At last, with spring, comes the call to action. Garcet takes the long jeep ride into combat, full of zeal and professional hopes ("Promotions do not come to young lieutenants promenading on the Champs Elysées"). He soon learns that he is the New Boy at the Old School...
Last week, in his shabby headquarters near the Champs-Elysées, Publisher Prouvost was getting ready to reinforce his claim to the throne. He and his staff were reviving Marie-Claire, a woman's monthly something like the Ladies' Home Journal that before the war had more...