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...Nicole Henriot is a slender girl of 23 who does not look as if she could hit a piano keyboard very hard. But she can: there is enough thunder in her piano-playing to have been heard all over Paris. Last week, when Nicole made her U.S. debut in Carnegie Hall, some Manhattan critics found her performance of Schumann's Concerto in A Minor too cold and brittle for their taste. But most of them were sure of one thing: in the small field of women concert pianists, she was the brightest newcomer of the year. "Here," wrote...
...F.F.I, court-martial they had pleaded innocent. They had believed Marshal Pétain, Henriot and others who had once been the Government of France. They had been told that the Maquis were bandits, foreigners, enemies of France. Their defense counsel had begged postponement of their trial until passions cooled. But the court had ruled that the six young men had borne arms against France and therefore must...
...Europe was in bold ferment last week. In Paris, members of the Underground caught and killed loud-mouthed Fascist Philippe Henriot, Vichy Minister of Propaganda. In the sun-baked foothills of the Pyrenees, patriots took and held for two days the storied town of Bergerac...
...dignified and disciplined in attitude. . . . We are not in the war." It was not enough. More violent Nazi- philes, their bridges already burned behind them, moved to range Vichyfrance openly on the Nazi side. Brutal Policeman Joseph Darnand, Minister of Labor Marcel Deat, slick Minister of Propaganda Philippe Henriot denounced Petain and Laval for straddling. Bull-like Jacques Doriot, powerful boss of the pro-Nazi Popular Party, bellowed that France must "make active contribution to this gigantic struggle." The Berlin radio hinted that Doriot might become No. 1. puppet: "A people's Government is ready...
...pictures at the Bignou Gallery were excellent examples of the two styles by which most citizens remember Renoir. La Famille Henriot, painted about 1871, is a gay, sharply drawn canvas of a gentleman and two ladies seated in the dappled shade of a pear tree with two engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were...