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With her looks, voice, sense of fun and a kind of invincible girlishness, Actress Fabray not only reflects what is bright in the heroine's role, but also slides over what might well be embarrassing. Greek-Parisian Actor Guétary, cast as a Hessian officer who joins the Americans and wins the girl, is in the approved style of European-operetta tenors, with both comic and romantic virtues and a good schmalzy voice...
...Harmonium, I believe." Cesar Franck was then 67, an advanced age for a man offering his first symphony. He had already composed his Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra, his fiery Sonata for Piano and Violin; he was an esteemed teacher. But he was still almost unknown to the Parisian public...
...cousin who has struck it rich. Surveying its growth, Novelist Evelyn Waugh found it, for his English taste, a bit too Irish: "In New York on St. Patrick's Day . . . the stranger might well suppose that Catholicism was a tribal cult." Last week, U.S. Catholic readers of the Parisian daily Le Monde got a chance to see themselves through the unblinking eyes of a Frenchman...
...original Parisian sets of the late Christian Berard are used for this production and are entirely in sympathy with the play as are his bizarre costumes. The American adaptation by Maurice Valency appears to be an excellent job. A word of special thanks must go to Alfred De Liagre, Jr., not only for his direction, but for his courage and foresight in putting on such an obviously 'uncommercial' drama. Mr. De Liagre chose for his garden the almond tree rather than the oil well--and happily has been granted both...
...City and the Pillar), most U.S. readers will hardly need New Directions' radar to detect the trend; but with sophomoric emphasis N.D. XI detects it anyhow in half a dozen inverted short stories and prose fragments. The queen of the queerer pieces is a collection of excerpts from Parisian Jean Genet's lushly symbolic novel, Our Lady of Flowers (explains Editor Laughlin in an introductory note: "Genet uses the pronouns more or less interchangeably...