Word: lui
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...lush chords of Boito's music (from his operas Mefistofele and Nerone) were drowned by applause. But when 81-year-old Conductor Toscanini hopped spryly down from the podium, the whole house was on its feet screaming "viva il maestro;" cried one voice, "Non c'e che lui" (he's in a class by himself). For 19 minutes the bedlam continued; the soloists (two of whom, Soprano Herva Nelli and Baritone Frank Guarrera, Metropolitan audition winner, had been brought from the U.S. by Toscanini) took 32 curtain calls. The maestro himself took twelve, at first grinning shyly...
Notre Dame, upset by Wisconsin after a high-scoring start, was touting a San Francisco sharpshooter named Kevin O'Shea, said to be the best West Coast prospect since Stanford's great Hank Lui-setti. U.C.L.A.'s Davage Minor was being talked about as the best Negro player in basketball history...
...like old times when the Crimson band started in on the famous "Wintergreen" medley before the opening kick off . . . When the huge first "T" was formed by the band a Princeton scout was seen to note: "unbalanced T to the right." He closed his book and slunk away. Apre lui le deluge...
...Medecin Malgre Lui," a movie taken directly from Moliere's play by the same name, imitates the Comedic Francaise in the acting and directing. The cast is an extremely good one, headed by M. Rogoni, as Sganarelle, the jovial, sensual wood-chopper who suddenly becomes a doctor in spite of himself...
Moliere with his wit and sparkle is the man chiefly responsible for making the show worth going to see, and his satire against doctors still gives first-rate entertainment. From the educational standpoint. "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" is a great success to the filled houses that are able to see it; but we should like to see a French movie that is primarily a movie, like "Mayerling," but undefaced by English captions...