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Sentimental Perfume. The daughter of a Lyon lingerie manufacturer, tiny (5 ft.) Singer Micheyl started out to be a painter, changed her mind at the Lyon Ecole des Beaux Arts and talked her way into a job singing in a little Left Bank nightspot. From there she graduated to the big clubs. She writes her own material, all told has turned out some 80 songs, 50 of which have been published. They are simple, marked by a soap-opera concern for the minutiae of middle-class life, and full of frankly sentimental perfume, e.g., "It takes so much love...
Died. Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-GIucksburg, 69. onetime wife (1908-20) of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, fourth son of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II; of a heart attack; in Lyon, France...
Robert J. R. Ellrich 4G, teaching fellow in General Education, will study at the University of Lyon, Solon Beinfield 2G, will study at the University of Paris, and Leon D. Bramson 3G will study at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands...
Died. Edouard Herriot, 84, three times (1924, '26, '32) Premier of France, whose career stretched over half a century, paralleled the Third Republic; in Lyon. Elected mayor of Lyon at 33, a Senator at 40, witty, erudite, pipe-puffing Herriot became a Senate rival to the fiery Georges Clemenceau; with British Socialist and Visionary Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the "Geneva Protocol" into the League of Nations, a first international attempt to outlaw aggression; canceled (1932) the German reparations agreements and plunged France soon after into such deep financial troubles that despite his efforts France repudiated its U.S. debts...
...Sahara of the bozarts." Rubinstein sees the U.S. as a sprawling oasis: "In the past 25 years this country has made more advances than some places in Europe have made in 250 years. Small towns throughout America are more receptive to fine music than old cities in France like Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux...