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...weasel, Wiener sat over his keyboard last week, played brittle melodies while opposite him Doucet, slow and enormously fat, kept up easy-running accompaniments. The Vivaldi-Bach Concerto and a Mozart Sonata made the bulk of their program, but the U. S. has been used to hearing its own Maier & Pattison team (now disbanded- TIME, March 2), play the Great Ones with far nicer balance and finesse. The Frenchmen scored with their jazz, the sort of thing which made Le Boeuf s reputation and has since stood transplanting into a thousand and more concerts. There was an arrangement of Braham...
Doucet the accompaniments. As was the case with Maier & Pattison, the two men have little in common. Wiener is Parisian to the finger tips, loves any city. Doucet spends his spare time on his farm near Bordeaux where he makes wine, raises cows and pigs. Since their arrival in the U. S. Wiener has been able to stomach only the finer kinds of U. S. cooking, such as chicken a la king. Doucet proudly eats griddle cakes & maple syrup, pork & beans...
When Mayor Walker reached Paris last week and took a suite at the Hotel Crillon, correspondents nocked in to ask him about his travelling companion. Unabashed, the Mayor declared: "Dave Maier is a true friend of mine. There's the little Dutchman. Get a good look...
...Maier stepped up beside the Mayor for inspection. Continued Mayor Walker: "He organized the Steuben Society and is president of it.* A million people in my town have honored him on more than one occasion and think that he's a distinguished citizen. I'm not disowning him as a friend because the Seabury committee is after him. I never go back on my friends...
...Convict and onetime Brothelman Maier then explained that it was just a "coincidence" that he sailed on the Bremen with the Mayor, that he was going to Germany for sciatica treatments, that he had joined the Walker party ("I paid all my own expenses") at the Mayor's request because he could speak German. Within 24 hours after the interview, however, "True Friend" Maier disappeared from Paris, presumably to take his sciatica to Berlin...