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...dawn, read Conrad, study Malaya, brood upon the remarkable changes since his first trip East 27 years before, and talk with the captain about the lore of the lands they passed. Passing Aden he thought of Rimbaud's tragic fate, and of how strange it was that the Frenchman should be the favorite poet of "a man so immaculate in thought, word and deed as Mr. Anthony Eden." Passing Ethiopia he thought of Conrad, who wrote a chapter of Almayer's Folly in a steamer named Adowa. His mind richly stored with literary and historical illustrations, everything that...
...German lawyer successfully defended Salengro with the following amazing plea to the German court martial: "Meine Herren, you must not sentence this Frenchman to death, for, France is a gallant country, and had a German prisoner in France committed the offense with which Salengro is charged we would consider it our duty to bow deeply before...
Last week this unprepossessing figure was the central character of one of the strongest French novels since Celine's Journey to the End of the Night. The sixth book of a 37-year-old, self-educated Frenchman, it has much in common with Celine's masterpiece in its mood of intense disgust, its savage satirical portraits, its hatred of hypocrisy and its wild, grotesque humor. But unlike Journey to the End of the Night, it is compact and tightly-woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types...
...Prince von Bismarck agreed on second thought to transmit the notes to Rome and Berlin; Lord Plymouth undertook to inform the Portuguese Government; and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who had left Monte Carlo in a hurry, ate a placid lunch in Paris with socialist French Premier Leon Blum. The Frenchman calmed his British guest greatly by saying that Paris would not join Moscow in precipitant intervention to save Madrid but would continue with London to go through the motions of observing the Non-intervention Pact while unofficial and semi-official gunrunning to both Whites & Reds flourishes in Spain...
Young Eugene Ormandy walked briskly into the Philadelphia limelight last week, hopped onto the Stokowski throne and in a determined, businesslike manner commanded attention for two Bach transcriptions, arranged by Lucien Cailliet, a jolly bespectacled Frenchman, known by Philadelphians as one of their regular clarinetists. After Cailliet's Bach came Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto with Fritz Kreisler as soloist, forerunning such headliners as Josef Hofmann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Kirsten Flagstad, Vladimir Horowitz, Mischa Levitzki, Jascha Heifetz, Lawrence Tibbett, Artur Schnabel, all sure bait for customers not altogether sure of a youthful new conductor. Fritz Kreisler's spell...