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This hearts & flowers campaign does not always fall on unlistening ears. While Foreign Minister Bidault and Premier Laniel were in Bermuda, another party of nine Frenchman, led by a Gaullist deputy named Pierre Lebon, was in Warsaw. Among them: ex-Premier Daladier and Jacques Soustelle, a youngish (41) anthropologist who is one of De Gaulle's right-hand men. They had come, at Polish Communist invitation and in a Polish Communist plane, to see for themselves the Oder-Neisse Line, which separates Poland and East Germany. Their visit, of course, called attention to the fact that Germans...
...Marcel Lebon, as Prince Danilo, was even worse. When I heard that he had just come over from France, I was looking forward to a composite of Charles Boyer and Jean Sablon. And that's just what I got--he sings like Boyer and has the dramatic ability of Sablon. I must admit he is a good looking actor, and he added a lot to the show as long as he kept his mouth shut...
...players), take my advice and go home after the second act. Act Three is terrible. The "action" takes place in Maxim's ritzy restaurant and attempts to give the weary audience (the show lasts until 11:30) a picture of Parisian night-life. The plot stands still while Monsieur Lebon, in his own inimitable fashion, emasculates four songs. Then there are a couple of dance sequences, a comedy skit, and at long last the thing is over. If Lehar were alive and saw this act, he would wish he were dead...
Professor Friedrich von der Leyen, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, will give his sixth illustrated lecture in German on "Deutsches Lebon in 13-15. Jahrundert," on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Germanic Museum...
...Dame a la Clef" is far less faulty than previous work by its author, who succeeds very well in working up a trifling incident. Perhaps, however, the author was not aware that his friend M. Lebon was telling him, in a slightly altered form, a familiar story in which a jealous husband walls up the stranger in the closet, instead of locking him in and then setting fire to the house...