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...Attending Physician Dr. Vincent Nardiello "talked to [Flores] cursorily, and he appeared to the doctor to be all right." On the witness stand, Dr. Nardiello testified that he did not suspend Flores "because the matter of suspension was up to [the doctor] at the previous fight." This Alphonse-Gaston act, said Judge Young, "amounted to a ludicrous system of professional courtesy...
About 20 years ago, the old theater was revivified when the Big Four of the Paris theater (Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, Georges Pitoeff, Gaston Baty) swept into the House of Molière and swept out the mustiness and pedantry that had infected it. Today it consists of two theaters, the Salle Richelieu on the Right Bank, where classical plays are given, and the Salle Luxembourg on the Left Bank, where contemporary plays are given. It has a staff of more than 400 actors and technicians, and its repertoire is so immense that it could give a completely different program...
...likes to find a stain on his family's honor, least of all an old French infantryman who has given the 30 best years of his life to his country. Gaston Le Torch had suffered enough wounds to rate a decent pension, was married to a sensible, loving wife who honored him for a missing eye and a severed thumb, and had philosophically tucked his handful of medals into an old cigar box. With nothing else to occupy him after World War I, Gaston began, like many another retired hero, to run down his family's history. Thus...
Another man might have kept his shame to himself. Not Gaston. He not only told his wife and family; he insisted that something be done to offset his ancestor's shame-perhaps outfit a boat and attack an English yacht in sight of a Riviera crowd. His relatives were understanding but unmoved. Perhaps, said Gaston's brother, he could arrange to have his small son lick a British youngster his own age. Poor Gaston went to his favorite café and, with the help of his favorite muscatel, began morosely to imagine every detail of his historic disgrace...
Coming out of his reveries at the café, Gaston ponders his experiences aboard La Douce, sips a little hot wine, and wonders if he can now get an extra disability allowance. Author Ferret has turned his escapist tale with wit and grace. No dish for the literal-minded, it is, in the words of one enthusiastic English reviewer, "a soufflé with sail...