Word: gallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a carefully selected cast of very Gallic variety artists, the "Continental Varieties of 1936" opened at the Shubert Tuesday for a week's run thus allowing its star, Lucienne Boyer, to take up her Boston activities where she left off last season. Although the show is constructed mainly as a buildup for Miss Boyer's dramatic renditions of striking French ballads, it has its merits of its own, which the reviewer found as diverting as the talents of la belle diseuse. The performers are few in number and diverse in talent, but they all possess a great deal...
Europe's "honest broker," French Premier Pierre Laval, achieved one of the outstanding triumphs of post-War diplomacy last week, and a Gallic jest. After enjoying a repast in one of Paris' best restaurants and paying like the very devil for it, with 10% "for service" on top, M. Laval was approached by the fawning Patron who murmured, "Perhaps M. le Président would pen a precious thought in our Golden Book...
Admitting with a cynicism which one would think too callous even for Gallic minds, that the League of Nations has never been more than a stooge for her own European machinations, France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...
...English but occasionally to French correspondents, M. Cedard remarks upon Edward of Wales's curious lack of discrimination in matters of food and Queen Mary's downright stinginess.* Smart and suave, the royal chef knows perfectly how to give satisfaction. Last week there was a silent chorus of Gallic shrugs among London's best chefs when it appeared that the international Silver Jubilee Soup Recipe Competition (TIME, March 18), of which M. Cedard was a judge, had been won by a British Army cook sergeant, honest George Brown of Aldershot...
...appeared a U. S. translation of The Wanderer, by one Alain Fournier, an un-Gallic romantic masterpiece of the same order as W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions and Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age. Author Alain Fournier was killed in the War, and The Wanderer was his only book, but that his influence was still alive in France was shown last week, with the U. S. publication of "Robert Francis' " The Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine...