Word: gallicly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soprano Victoria de los Angeles, though she is only 30, made a matronly-looking Marguerite, but her singing was faultless as a flute. For a man who has just been rejuvenated by the devil, Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling looked pudgy, but he sang with Gallic smoothness. Conductor Monteux. with no apparent effort, achieved a nearly perfect balance between orchestra and singers...
...Little Novels of Sicily (Grove). Verga, who died in 1922, was one of Italy's great writers, and these strong, tender stories of life at its most universal levels are among his best. After Verga, Frenchman Gil Buhet's The Innocent Knights (Viking) may seem like Gallic fluff. Actually, it is a charming story about a gang of schoolboys who shut themselves up in a moated ruin until their unjust elders and schoolmasters are ready to treat them like human beings...
...November 1951, Audrey opened at Manhattan's Fulton Theater in the title role of Gilbert Miller's production of Gigi, a sophisticated Gallic story of a 16-year-old French tomboy who dreams of bourgeois marriage while her female relatives train her to become a rich man's mistress. Next day the New York Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Miss Hepburn is the one fresh element in the performance. She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax...
...nominal functions of administration while the President of the Republic invites leaders of the other parties to try their hand at forming a new government-usually beginning with an unlikely candidate and (always excepting the Communists) moving on up the roster to the possible. There is a Gallic gimmick in this: by making the process seem over-leisurely, the President relies on rising public impatience to compel the Assembly finally to vote some government into power. Last week, casually reviewing candidates to end France's 19th political crisis in 7½years, the lords of the Assembly were momentarily...
...excellent food and vigorous Gallic flavor of the restaurant, with its almost militant, straight backed chairs, have attracted many notables. Genevieve remembers William Faulkner, who used to eat lunch in the same corner every day, as "a small man, sharp blue eyes and a moustache. He seemed to be watching for something and always ordered Coq au Vin."Thornton Wilder and Miro frequented the restaurant, but neither made the impression on Genevieve that Louis Jouvet did, in a single visit. He came to Henri IV early one evening, out of temper and unwilling to talk. With some escargots...