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...three angels-two of them murderers, the third a swindler-take the visitors on. All three badmen have sunny natures, warm hearts, clever hands, sleepless brains; all three are passionate believers in the robinhood of man. Possessing every criminal art and penal grace, they set matters aright in a Gallic Christmas Carol where it is simpler to bump Scrooge off than to convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...Little Madeleine, by Mrs. Robert Henrey. Recollections of a girlhood in Paris during the early part of the century; a fine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

With Miss Hepburn, a Gallic air, and rather determined effervescence, Gigi is an engaging play. But don't glance at your program; one of the scenes might dash by in the meantime...

Author: By R.e. Oldenburg, | Title: Gigi | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

...Little Madeleine, by Mrs. Robert Henrey. Recollections of a girlhood in Paris during the early part of the century; a fine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Feb. 16, 1953 | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...hairdresser at the Savoy Hotel while mother did dressmaking. Today little Madeleine is Mrs. Robert Henrey, au thor of several well-written books, mother of gifted Child Actor Bobby Henrey (The Fallen Idol). Her saga of life & death in Paris is an endearing, peculiarly feminine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism, a reminder that life has its quota of sentiment and that it can be conveyed without sentimentality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Without Tears | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

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