Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a new battalion commander ordered her not to go into the front line. Said shocked Pepita: "Five kilometers from the front! ... I might as well be dining at Maxim's!" Mademoiselle was angry to a degree which bearded Major Bertrand de Seze could describe only with closed eyes and a quick shaking of the head. Said she: "You may be sure I shall remain angry until I am back to the forward company." A French liaison officer guessed that that would not be long...
...decide to see this (and you really should because of the delightful shenanigans of the minor players), take my advice and go home after the second act. Act Three is terrible. The "action" takes place in Maxim's ritzy restaurant and attempts to give the weary audience (the show lasts until 11:30) a picture of Parisian night-life. The plot stands still while Monsieur Lebon, in his own inimitable fashion, emasculates four songs. Then there are a couple of dance sequences, a comedy skit, and at long last the thing is over. If Lehar were alive and saw this...
Into one pitfall he never fell. For all his interest in racing and breeding thoroughbreds, he was never a pedigree expert, a profession in which two and two must somehow be brought to equal five. "I breed Discovery to Galley Slave," he says, restating the old maxim: "Breed the best to the best and hope for the best...
When he came to England again, in 1936, Maxim Litvinoff got an audience with the King and all the amenities. Papasha-and the Soviet Union-had climbed to respectability. As Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs (1920-30) and then as Commissar, Litvinoff had cut through the "barbed-wire fence" which France's Clemenceau had persuaded the West to raise around Russia. He sold most of the Western world on the proposition that Communism was able & willing to cooperate with the West...
...Died. Maxim Litvinoff, 75, onetime Soviet Foreign Commissar (1929-39) and Ambassador to the U.S. (1941-43); in Moscow (see FOREIGN NEWS...