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Beauties of the Night is a Gallic treatment of Mr. Thurber's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Gerard's hero is a bit more purposive and coherent in his dreams, and the world into which he constantly reawakens is a bit more vicious, but the idea is the same. Phillipe plays a music teacher whose drams take him back into history. The dreams center about his success as a composer of operas, a soldier of fortune, and a wooer of beautiful women. One of these women is Gina Lollabrigia...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Beauties of the Night | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...mystery is not likely to puzzle the reader as much as poor Ravinel, but Authors Boileau and Narcejac keep the reader guessing the rest of it to the Gallic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Triangle | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...deuxieėme cru-a secondary growth-he has been highly praised in the U.S. as one of the best products of his country. The reason for the difference in taste probably is that Satirist Ayme's dry caricatures hit the American palate as typically Gallic. Such novels as The Barkeep of Blemont and The Miraculous Barber have been so successful here that his U.S. publishers have now dug out one that is 18 years old. It turns on a murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Murder Gallery | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Mademoiselle Colombe (adapted by Louis Kronenberger-from the French of Jean Anouilh) is an amorality play written in Gallic terms, i.e., the playwright never reveals whom he is rooting for. This has proved dismaying to Broadway audiences in the past because, though relishing a good fight between right and wrong, U.S. playgoers prefer to know which is which. Opposed in the turn-of-the-century plot are Eli Wallach, a young man top-heavy with virtue, and his wife Julie Harris, who cannot see why he must do everything the hard way when the easy way is so much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Franqaix: Sérénade B-E-A (Pasquier Sextet; Esoteric). A perfumed, witty and impudent serenade in the Gallic manner. Its object is the praise of womankind, plus solution of a technical puzzle: the three letters of the title are its thematic notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Dec. 28, 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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