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...playing time, most music lovers will want to pick and choose among the ten volumes. Among the most outstanding are Volumes I and II, which include beautifully clear and simple performances of the six Brandenburg concertos, with such noted soloists as Violinists Joseph Szigeti, Alexander Schneider, Flutist John Wum-mer, Oboist Marcel Tabuteau. The chief interest in Volume III is The Musical Offering (which Bach began as an improvisation on a theme supplied by Frederick the Great). Volume VI contains two memorable performances: Casals playing the Sonata No. 3 for cello and piano, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin's performance...
...moment hitch developed in the well-laid wedding plans of Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 41, and Hollywood Dancer Patrice Wymore, 23, when a French Lutheran clergyman suddenly withdrew the use of his church. The twice-divorced groom scurried about, thought he had found another, an abandoned church in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Other reported plans: a civil ceremony in Monaco with an army guard of honor, peasants dancing in the streets, followed by a one-day honeymoon, the shortest of Flynn's career...
...director of the Ecole Nationale de la France d'Outre Mer and professor at the College de France, Mus is a well-known specialist in Sanskrit and Annamite and has spent many years in Southeast Asia and the East Indies...
...Blue-Papered Bedroom. Last week it was again time for gypsydom's traditional pilgrimage to Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a small fishing village in the wild Rhone delta, to pay homage to their patron Saint Sarah.t Once Romanies from all over the world came; last week, only the French gypsies were there. The others were unable to move across the world's new frontiers and new orders...
Stockholders of the Société des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers à Monaco (Sea Bathing and Foreigners' Club of Monaco), which runs the Casino, got the news at a meeting in the Casino's ornate Salle Ganne, a floor below the gaming rooms. While gamblers tried their hand upstairs at roulette, baccarat, and trente et quarante, 70-year-old Chairman Alfred Delpierre explained how the odds had worked against the house...