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...Four's Foreign Ministers met in Paris last week. They met for what Paris' Figaro somewhat extravagantly said would "once and for all ... settle or unsettle the peace of mind of men in every street in every capital of the world." The French greeted their guests with culinary reminders of what the man in the street was up against. The British delegates faced a dinner of cauliflower, spinach and ice cream. The Russians got beets, apple pie and coffee-a hotel menu to which the Soviet Embassy hastily added steak. The prudent Americans had wisely arranged...
Unlucky Nine. In 1907 Mahler came to New York to conduct the Metropolitan Opera. With such great singers as Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Geraldine Farrar, Feodor Chaliapin and Emma Fames he conducted Beethoven's Fidelia, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and the Met's first performance of Smetana's Bartered Bride...
...most of the critics raved. Cried Combat: "Eisenstein has found again his incomparable style." The conservative Paris-Matin found "a power and color that not even American films have ever given us." Even Figaro, which panned the film for "extravagance, exaggerated looks and declamatory gestures," recognized "Eisenstein's accomplished art." The Socialist weekly Gavroche went all out: "This film crushes with its monumental mass everything that French screens have known since the beginning...
...Dolorism. The first 5,000-copy issue of its melancholy bible, La Revue Doloriste, sold in Paris last week like gargles in wintertime London. The cult of sorrow and misery even took the spotlight from Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialists (TIME, Jan. 28), as staid Figaro gave it tongue-in-cheek recognition: "No school ever chose its hour better than this one. Every French citizen is an unknowing Dolorist.And Monsieur Gouin [France's Premier], perhaps, is also...
...much amused as I am moved." British Cinema Producer Gabriel Pascal (Caesar & Cleopatra, etc.) wanted Kaye to play Macbeth. The Metropolitan Opera's director, Edward Johnson, proclaimed Danny the perfect Figaro-if only he had an operatic voice...