Word: marcel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book begins with Joseph nervously putting last touches on the Wotton Vanborough exhibit. With this scene as its casual centre it launches into a circling recital of upper-crust extravagances and lower-class problems, mixed, its methodical madness suggesting nothing so much as a cross between Evelyn Waugh and Marcel Proust. Proust and Waugh have at bottom much the same chillingly precise appreciation of high-flown decadence, and the combination of their two techniques here serves the author very well. Waugh-ish are the incidental plot and background, which largely describe the scurryings from London to Paris to the Lido...
...Saturday, at 8:15 o'clock, Marcel Dupre, French organist and improvisateur, will give a recital on the new Classic organ in the Germanic Museum...
...obtained in advance. No tickets will be sold at the door. PROGRAM Concerto in B flat, No. 2 Handel Trio Sonata in E flat, No. 1 Bach Three Movements Prelude and Fugue in A minor Bach Bassun of dessus de Trompotte Clerambault Variations on a Nool Daquin Two Chorales Marcel Dupre Our Father In Dulci Jubilo...
...diplomatic'' and to have their lives complicated by a predatory lass, lithely represented by Penelope Dudley Ward. The play is joyously, if inexpertly, served by the younger characters of its cast (Philip Friend, Cyril Raymond, Hubert Gregg, Jacqueline Porel), Veterans Frank Lawton and Marcel Vallee (M. Maingot) contributing most of the stage craftsmanship, and Guy Middleton a generous measure of what...
Sommerfield's own section, a machine-gun unit, consisted of himself and John Cornford (later killed in action); Marcel, a young tough from the Bastille quarter of Paris; Freddie, another Englishman, an ex-Guardsman; Richter, a dapper German of mysterious antecedents; miscellaneous Poles, Italians. Equipment and uniforms were equally scanty; the men wore mostly overalls and windbreakers, had one antiquated Hotchkiss gun for the whole company to train on. (Later, on the eve of their first engagement, they wangled Lewis guns, had a day to learn the new mechanism before going into action.) Drill commands were in French, which...