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Many of the throng went especially to hear Claude Alphand sing. She is a beautiful, blonde, rather waxwork-like Frenchwoman who accompanies her balladry on the guitar. Rated by many as the best French chanteuse since Yvette Guilbert and Lucienne Boyer, she sings with a feline throatiness and great stylistic elegance. Her favorite song...
...that De Gaulle and of the alternatives to him, a Frenchwoman in Vichy-france wrote last December. When she penned her letter to a friend in the U.S., turncoat Admiral Jean François Darlan was still alive and in U.S. favor. Since his death, many things had changed for the better. But when her smuggled letter turned up in the U.S. last week, its words still rang...
...ballet company which seemed as corny as they come. The coryphees were wildly out of step with one another and with the music. The men wore tights, jackets and bow ties which looked like three-a-day vaudeville. The prima ballerinas, apparently a haughty Italian, a frizzy-headed Frenchwoman, an intense Russian, wobbled in their pirouettes, fought for the spotlight, mugged and ogled. It was like an off night, and a dreadful one, in the Russian ballet. The audience roared. It was meant to. The ballet was Gala Performance (choreography by Antony Tudor), a new act presented by the young...
...with great emotion that I read your letter in TIME. The sentiments expressed therein go straight to my heart. I am a Frenchwoman who in the afterglow of 1918 married one of those soldiers who came to help us at that time...
This is my answer to that unknown Frenchwoman who wrote the letter entitled "Speak to Us" [TIME, Oct. 28]: Chere Madame...