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...first English-speaking part she ever attempted, gives Mr. Coward's little tale her best. She trills four of the seven songs, trips lightly up & down the stage in flat heels and Lanvin costumes. Unlike Pierre Fresnay. who holds the record for the greatest number of performances in Musset and for speaking better English than any other French actor, Mile Printemps does not always articulate the graceful Coward lyrics sufficiently to make them intelligible. But she and M. Fresnay provide an agreeable, if not an eventful, evening in the theatre. Best tune: "I'll Follow My Secret Heart...
...later generation, drawing a similar bitterness from a world in greater ruin, can find its mood already mirrored in the pages of his confessions and in his melancholy poems. The Vagabond will journey to Emerson 211 this morning and listen to a more critical estimate of Alfred de Musset from Professor Morize...
...Alfred de Musset," Professor Morize, Emerson...
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, famed critic, was deeply distressed by George Sand's lack of a lover. To her he sent Prosper Merimee. After a week George Sand sent him back. Anxious to please, Sainte-Beuve replaced Merimee with Alfred de Musset, who was to prove, except for one divertisement, eminently satisfactory...
...soon in bed with delirium tremens. Dr. Pietro Pagello was called in. George was much taken with him. As soon as Alfred recovered, the three agreed that George and Pietro had best go away together. She later returned to Alfred but the glamor was gone. Thereafter Alfred de Musset, when in need of funds, would reopen the wound of his old love, watch the metaphorical blood flow as he penned a poem. Last and most famed of George Sand's lovers was Frederic null Chopin, of whom a friend said: "There was nothing permanent about him except his cough...