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Died. Henriette Caillaux, ex-Premier Joseph Caillaux's wife, acquitted in 1914 of murdering Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro; in Département Sarthe, France. Campaigning against Caillaux, then Finance Minister, Calmette had printed a love letter Caillaux had written Henriette while he was still married to his first wife, and threatened to print more. Mme. Caillaux went to his office and shot him dead. A French jury decided there had been no premeditation, acquitted her, and precipitated a political crisis. The case for days distracted French attention from the outbreak of World War I. Even 20 years...
...Parisians the dream of history is caught in the web of streets where the Nazis last week stolidly laid waste-in preparation, it was said, for a rebuilding job designed by no less an architect than Adolf Hitler. A brave letter appeared in Figaro: "Paris, which in June of 1940 miraculously escaped trial by fire and the horror of destruction, is unexpectedly menaced by new destruction." The letter was signed by a group of intellectuals and painters, including Jean Giraudoux, Paul Valery, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau, Andre Derain. The man in the street, passing the wreckers at work, simply muttered...
...talented sing ers, who expertly shake 19 operas-in-English out of their sleeves. Newest Phila delphia stunt is to have a tenor sing the incredible quasi-male operatic roles usu ally warbled by women in tights-Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Faust, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlofsky in The Bat, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann...
...last glittering show in western civilization. In the Diamond Horseshoe, niftiest railbirds were Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh, Lady Decies and Mrs. Leonora Warner (see cut). No one paid much attention to the opera, which was one of the lasting achievements of western civilization-the tender, comic Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus...
...tutte (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, conducted by Fritz Busch; Victor; 40 sides in three volumes; $21.50). A fluent, pulsing performance of Mozart's comedy of rococo love, the last of his operas to be recorded complete. Così fan tutte, like the recorded Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, was expertly given before the war at John Christie's Glyndebourne Manor, Sussex, England. Conductor Busch and the soprano star of Così fan tutte, Ina Souez, figured in Manhattan performances of the opera last month...