Word: figaro
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...stones were thrown through the windows of some Red offices in Paris, firebombs were tossed into a Communist newspaper plant in Nice, and some Soviet flags were torn down from a group of allied flags near Lille. "The real conquerors are the friends of Thorez and Duclos," reminded Le Figaro. "It is they who, on the ruins and on the tomb, ought to raise the Red banner at the head of the dead...
...coat over the girl's shoulders and spoke to her in a fierce whisper as they went out the door. The next aspirant, a moon-faced young man, was already at the girl's place before the studio mike. He burst thunderously into the Largo al Factotum ("Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!") from The Barber of Seville...
...many Europeans the U.S. is an artistic wasteland whose museums are1 deserted. Not so, says Georges A. (for Adolphe) Salles, director of the Louvre in Paris, who has just returned to France from a U.S. visit. Writes Salles in Paris' Figaro Littéraire...
...Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world ... as a result of this assault on a world . . ." Novelist François Mauriac took two columns in Le Figaro to empty the vials of his wrath on the papal nuncio to France as one "who wields on French soil more power than that of any member of the government." Mauriac blamed the situation on the separation of church and state. A concordat with the Vatican, he suggested, could limit...
...Opera Theater (Sat. 4 p.m., NBC). Acts III and IV of The Marriage of Figaro...