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...present standards, however, pretty Bidu Sayao as Manon, Richard Crooks as Des Grieux, John Brownlee as Lescaut dished up a digestible version of Massenet's very Gallic score. Bruna Castagna, whose buxom, pleasant Carmen is the best Manhattanites have heard since the days of Geraldine Farrar, had a nearspat with Conductor Gennaro Papi when he tried to slow down her singing of the Habanera. But the incident passed off in mutual glares...
...noted in the second Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets whom they call bards, who sing songs of eulogy and of satire, accompanying themselves on instruments very like the lyre." Even hard-headed Julius Caesar, with his general's ear for music, mentioned in his Gallic War that the Druidic warriors "learn by heart a great number of verses." Scholars have long puzzled over Welsh manuscripts of the 12th Century, trying to decipher lines and circles that meant chords to Cambrian harpists. The Welsh apparently invented harmony, structural basis of all modern European music, dressed their...
Club de Femmes (Jacques Deval), made in France, is a naive, sometimes sad, sometimes merry, typically Gallic approach to a theme similar to that of Maedchen in Uniform, Eight Girls in a Boat and other film treatments of repressed girlhood. Manhattan censors promptly spotted Sapphic overtones and more frankness than young girls ought,to show, ordered several cuts. Its U. S. sponsors, Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn, gloomily anticipated even severer censorship in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas...
Bailed as one of the best Gallic cinemas, "La Kermesse Heroique," after the novel by Charles Speak, forms the first offering of the French Talking Films Committee for 1937-38. It will be presented on Thursday and Friday, October 14 and 15, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
Sleek, medium-sized Marcel Rochas, a conventional French brunet, is grandson of a Burgundian shepherd and son of an Avignon artist. He was born in Paris in 1902, and presently set out to be a lawyer. He readily explains how his Gallic temperament led him to become a dressmaker...