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...rooms (so another account ran) and made a clean getaway. First upshot: two midshipmen charged with helping her face dire punishment, and three midshipman officers who knew of the plot were broken to the ranks (the academy first said the demotions were merely for "administrative reasons"). Second upshot: Dr. Marius Johnson grounded his high-sailing daughter Susy...
...Marius Constant is a fast-rising 33-year-old Parisian composer with a peculiar aural defect: he can never listen to a single instrument without mentally hearing all the instruments of the orchestra. This gets so bad, he complains, that "even when I play the piano all by myself, I hear strings and trombones, trumpets and percussion.'' Not long ago Composer Constant also found himself hearing tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphone and celesta. He committed these exotic cerebral sounds to paper, and last week a Parisian audience jammed into the Theatre des Champs-Elysées to hear...
...were visiting Rome. Their brush with the remains of the Renaissance encouraged both young hopefuls to try to paint great pictures instead of settling for good ones. Result: both sprinted too far too soon, and had to sit out their later years. Vanderlyn tasted glory first, when his grandiose Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage caught Napoleon's eye. "Give the medal to that!" the Emperor ordered; overnight the American became a cynosure at the French court. When Aaron Burr came penniless to France after his trial for treason, Vanderlyn was able to repay Burr's former generosity...
...Snack Room (overlooking the Place de l'Opéra) has been remodeled with glass walls and concealed lighting under supervision of the government, which classes the Café de la Paix as an artistic monument. Though most of the restaurant's specialities, e.g., la bouillabaisse de Marius, may be ordered at the counter, the management is making its big pitch for the tourist with short-order dishes that would have made Brillat-Savarin shudder. Items: Pacific Nightmare, a 95? pie filled with minced chicken and fresh mushrooms; Romeo and Juliette Tenderloin Steakie with watercress...
...characters are exploited by the director, Compton Burnett, to dramatize their own predicament. The officer, Commandant Hohensee (Marius Goring) is made to say things like, "What we share--our music, our talks--has nothing to do with the war." This may be so, but he would not say it, and the girl would not reply, "But you are a German." Even though Maria Schell, as the daughter, is a lovely woman, it is hard to listen to the words she has been given. The "minor key" in which the movie is set seems more like a series of uneasy moments...