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Admitting with a cynicism which one would think too callous even for Gallic minds, that the League of Nations has never been more than a stooge for her own European machinations, France is unwilling to lift even one tapering Parisian finger to raise it out of a chaos in which slie has no interest. Now that the League has done its dirty work, France finds herself in the embarrassing position of the housewife who must once and for all get rid of an old servant without having the neighbors accuse her too loudly of cruelty and ingratitude...
...over his lines, but the boy did not know it. He considered his father enchanting, handsome, incomprehensible. He grew up with the fixed belief that in the world of the theatre, work and play were the same. The belief stayed with him after he had been laughed off the Parisian and provincial stages, written a hit at the age of 20, lived through a 13-year quarrel with his father, known most of the theatrical great of his day, become the most famed of French actor-directors and playwrights...
Both Over African Jungles and Speak to the Earth are frivolous works compared with Africa Dances. Geoffrey Gorer, 30-year-old English writer, traveled from Dakar through French West Africa to Dahomey and the Gold Coast, with Feral Benga, famed Parisian Negro dancer, who wanted to stage a Negro ballet. The travelers saw some extraordinary native dancing, including the performance of adagio dancers who danced with children and knives, throwing knives that seemed to pass through the children in midair. But most of Africa Dances is devoted to realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration...
Called upon to carry more than her just share of At Home Abroad, Comedienne Lillie demonstrates the full extent of her resource and range by thrice repeating, with unimportant changes of scene and material, her most famed characterization: the ludicrous femme fatale. First a Parisian music hall favorite ("l'amour, the merrier"), then a temperamental ballerina with painful recollections of her flight from Russia ("You can't teach an old dog new treks"), she tops the lot as a light lady of Vienna with this lyrical self-analysis...
...masterwork that they must expect to encounter in it just such confusions and uncertainties as they found in life itself. The first four books, each as long as an ordinary novel, constituted the preface to the entire work. They introduced a hundred odd characters drawn from every level of Parisian society in 1908, outlined a dozen major complications that ranged from the discreet bribing of a radical deputy to a murder committed by a perverse bookbinder. The only theme linking the unrelated incidents and careers was the threat of a general European war which, looming large in the consciousness...