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...equal glow for the great and the trivial in books ("As I grow older I find Shakespeare more thrilling, more enchanting; yet I relish a good detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes about literary greats he had known (Galsworthy, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Conrad, Shaw, et al.). To critical literary contemporaries, Phelps was a sinner who had stopped to look back at the Victorian Age and turned to a pillar of saccharine. Said unruffled Billy Phelps: "The most important emotion to preserve in maturity [is] the enjoyment of enjoyment." His warm enthusiasms and wide...
...Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, titian-topped Countess Renée Maeterlinck told how she got her husband, octogenarian Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck, to write the memoirs he will publish next autumn: "I trap him as a cat would a mouse. I ask him questions. I make him answer me. Then pretty soon he's writing a book...
Fauré: Incidental Music to Pelléas and Mélisande (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor; 4 sides). High polishing of some lustrous bits composed for Maeterlinck's play while Debussy was at work on his monumental opera on the same subject...
...eleven European laureates who have arrived in the U.S. in recent years are: Maurice Maeterlinck, Sigrid Undset, Thomas Mann (literature); Sir Norman Angell (peace); Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye (chemistry); Otto Meyerhof, Otto Loewi (physiology and medicine); Albert Einstein, James Franck, Victor Franz Hess, Enrico Fermi (physics...
Robert Goffin's bounding enthusiasm has found many an outlet. Besides being a leading criminal lawyer of Brussels (until the Nazi invasion), he has authored books on legal finance, spies, gastronomy, rats, spiders, eels. He collaborated on a play with Maurice Maeterlinck. Jazz, at first his passionate hobby, is now his profession. For him there is only one worth-while kind: hot, improvised jazz. "You must hear Lombardo," he says, "to have a notion of what not to do in jazz...