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...Monsieur Perrin is taking the part of the Marquis de la Seigliere in the play E. P. Eiting '28, who has acted in the Cercle productions for the last four years, is taking a leading role. W. B. Cowen '30. F. G. Shaw '31, and W. D. Carter '31, also have parts in the play. The feminine pates are taken by Miss Elizabeth Lyman and Miss Alison Hardy...
Upon his return from Europe for a "business visit" last week Monsieur Jean Monnet, onetime wealthy French industrialist (brandy), present Manhattan banking house partner (Blair & Co.) astonished Wall Streeters by explaining through the Manhattan press that his Motherland will henceforth lend money instead of borrowing. An outlet for France's surplus funds must be found, said Banker Monnet, former Deputy Secretary General of the League of Nations. But no "rivalry" with the U. S. will result, he soothed. Co-operation in international finance, U. S., England, France, hand in hand, will be the motto. Usurers sighed or cursed. France...
...Geneva, last week. Seldom have Great Powers been more thoroughly flouted by Minor Nations than during the proceedings which ensued. The Powers were represented, of course, by the Big Five: 1) Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain), supercilious to correspondents but ready with a queer, cackling laugh for his colleagues; 2) Monsieur Aristide Briand (France), tousled and heavy eyed as a tomcat at dawn; 3) Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany), plump, bald, rubicund, and yet with a trig, indefinable air of smartness; 4)Signor Vittorio Scialoja (Italy), representing with compact, bustling decisiveness the great Duce; 5) Baron Adachi (Japan), frail, insignificant in stature...
Sophocles told the story 2,000 years ago of (Edipus, the kindly King of Thebes, Fate's most luckless victim. Jean Cocteau took the Greek, made a text of it for Stravinsky, gave it to Monsieur J. Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical device, Stravinsky presented his (Edipus. He had a speaker (in Boston last week it was Paul Leyssac), to tell the story step by step. He had specific soloists-Charles Hackett for (Edipus, Margaret Matzenauer for Jocastá, Fraser Gange for Tiresias-and the Harvard Glee Club for his chorus...
...Impossible, Monsieur" has been the sorrowful response of countless French tobacconists when stranded U. S. men have managed to gasp out: "Avez-vous Chesterfields?" or "Donnez-moi des Luckies...