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...19th century operas. Despite Sutherland's mien of being constructed of equal parts dignity and marble, friends and colleagues have often hinted that the Australian diva has a healthy streak of lunacy herself. But it took a new production of Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week to prove that Sutherland can camp, shriek, mug and stomp about in boots delightfully without missing a gruppetto or smudging a staccato...
Baptiste the Goat. The Canadians swiftly got to work behind man-high barricades of barbed wire. Machine guns were mounted on Ferret armored cars, and the "Van Doos" (a corruption of Royal Vingt-Deuxième Régiment) organized themselves into platoons and companies as more and more troop-laden planes dropped out of the Mediterranean sky. Mess Sergeant Roméo Saulnier, bent over the first three stoves set up, said, "I've got orders to cook supper for 400 men tonight, lunch for 600 tomorrow, and for 800 next...
While she bustled about the kitchen, M. Paul Miville-Dechêne, the Quebec Liquor Commission's chief accountant (at about $5,000 a year), was looking forward to the midnight Mass. A reserve lieutenant colonel and commander of the Régiment de Quêbec, le père had proudly announced that this year they would go to the Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers...
Most of the troops had deserted by going on pre-embarkation leaves and not coming back. In Quebec, about 700 men of Le Régiment de Châteauguay, stationed at Sorel, vanished. Another 600 were missing from Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke at Joliette...
Major Paul Triquet, who won his decoration before Ortona (TIME, March 20), spoke to 15,000 fellow French Canadians in le régiment de Hull. They had participated in the bloodless occupation of Kiska with the U.S. forces. Now, he said, it was their duty to stand by fellow Canadians overseas. General Pearkes followed up: "The work you did at Kiska made your names honored. Your experience makes you invaluable as invasion forces. Play the man's part. . . . Volunteer now [for overseas service...