Word: fabien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical Foreign Legion picture, about a medical officer (Victor Jory) who, unjustly convicted of poisoning his major, escapes to a seaside town. After having a liaison with a handsome cabaret hostess (Vivienne Osborne), he meets and falls in love with the fiancee (Loretta Young) of his friend Captain Jean Fabien (David Manners). Bullets and fever, as is usually the case in French North Africa, presently improve the situation. A sick orderly confesses to killing the major, whom no one liked anyway. Fabien gets a bullet and a splendid funeral, at which his fiancee and the surgeon are outstanding mourners...
...Saint-Exupéry-Century. Author St. Exupery used to be an aviator but he does not write like any of the aviators with whose literary experiments the U. S. public is familiar. Night Flight, a second novel, is a brief account of disaster on the South American airmail. Fabien, carrying the mail from the far South to Buenos Aires, flies through a golden twilight in which "night was rising like a tawny smoke." Presently the evening becomes less calm. At the airport, Rivière, "who was responsible for the entire service," waits anxiously for Fabien and two other...
Meanwhile, sailing for Europe was Fabien Sevitzky, nephew of Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky who dropped the first four letters of his name some years ago so that his career would not be just a pale reflection of his illustrious uncle's. Sevitzky, like Koussevitzky, is a double-bass virtuoso; like his uncle exceedingly handsome, well-groomed. After fleeing from Russia in Revolution time, tramping through dense woods in stormy weather, carrying the double bass which was a gift from his uncle, Sevitzky came to the U. S., joined the Philadelphia Orchestra. For the past six years...