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Putting its best hunch forward, the Metropolitan Opera signed Vienna's buxom Soprano Irmgard Seefried this season. Last week she bowed as Susanna, the maid in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and turned out to be the hit of the evening. She bounced around as a properly improper young peasant girl, conniving enthusiastically, clucking her disapproval of other people's peccadilloes, escaping from her own tight jams, seeming to enjoy every minute. Almost from the moment of her entrance, she had the Met audience laughing in delight...
...Will we ever know," asked France's conservative Le Figaro, "exactly how much [industry] has been nationalized?" The paper - along with many a French businessman - was boiling mad over a 235-page government publication which was in the spotlight last week as the government wrestled with the budget. The book showed that in France, socialism has not crept; it has galloped. Since the war, the government's interest in private enterprise has more than doubled (to $937 million). Government holdings now comprise about one-third of the industrial plant...
...dead sometimes get in the way. The editors of the Paris weekly Le Figaro Littéraire recently called attention to the large area of French land occupied by cemeteries. The British, said the magazine, often use cremation as an alternative to cemeteries, but the Roman Catholic Church, which has a good bit to say about French burial practices, is steadfastly opposed to it.* Then the weekly asked some distinguished French intellectuals: 1) Should the church permit cremation? 2) Would you rather be cremated or buried...
...Hand. "These debates will not be without a tomorrow," said Mendès-France. Conservative Figaro was inclined to agree with him: "Many of the young ... by giving their votes to this man whose words will echo in the political life of tomorrow-if only because he has made the Socialist Party come out of its solitude-have shown above all a desire for a change and renewal... A page has been turned." Like Aneurin Bevan, promising Mendès-France had the air of being "the next Premier...
Paris greeted the new plan with cheers, predicted early approval by city officials. A few diehard conservatives still grumbled, but most people liked the clean modernism and the low bow to Paris' past. Wrote Critic Andre Siegfried in Le Figaro: "That which thinking Parisians demand is that their city, without refusing to be of its own century, not renounce [its right to] remain Paris. Delicate problem. Delicate reconciliation." Echoed the left-wing Combat: "Very seductive . . . They have succeeded perfectly...