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Paralleling the Stavisky-rooted murder of Albert Prince, the great Caillaux-Calmette affair grew from Rochette roots. Because Editor Gaston Calmette of Le Figaro waged a bitter campaign against Joseph Caillaux, Minister of Finance, largely for his alleged part in the Rochette scandal, Mme Caillaux walked into Figaro's office and shot Editor Calmette dead...
...permitted to watch Louis XV eat. But with all his genius he never found one large-hearted patron on whom he could depend. He married an amiable, unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth for six years out of their union of nine. He went deeper & deeper in debt. Figaro earned him $200, Don Giovanni about $225. A grey-clad stranger knocked at his door one day, asked him to narrow his price for writing a Requiem March. The stranger turned out to be steward to a count who wanted to be known as a composer but Mozart, worn...
...senatorial campaign was very expensive. Perfumer Coty lost partly be cause, misjudging the people he wished to represent, he dined publicly in Ajaccio with a Corsican bandit. In 1929 came the Wall Street crash and Publisher Coty's divorce. His two papers, the conservative Figaro and blatant Ami du Peuple, have lost money consistently. He lost more in subsidizing the unsuccessful Paris-Tokyo non-stop flight of Aviators Lebrix & Doret. The Coty perfume business has felt Depression. And last week the former Mme Coty obtained a court order forcing François Coty to pay her an additional...
...Reason for including it in a Mozart Festival: its libretto, like that of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, is based on one of the pair of comedies by Pierre Aupustin Car de Beaumarchais...
...might have overstepped the mark, suddenly saw the red shadow of Russia athwart the German map. Was there the wildest possibility that Germany might borrow from Russia? If German Communists seized the Reich would they ally themselves with Moscow? Might the Red Army soon be on the Rhine? Le Figaro recalled the German-Russian Treaty of Rapallo, and added: "A new consecration, and no doubt a strengthened one has occurred between Russia and Germany at the moment when with tears in its voice the Reich is imploring us to be generous...