Word: parisians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well ahead of the Nazi evacuation, Paris' wartime musical Führer, a thin, rather Goebbels-like German composer named Werner Egk, had packed his trunks and left in a hurry. Last week Egk's few Parisian friends were in the doghouse...
General Charles de Gaulle had won Parisian hearts. He had also won a practically unchallenged right to rule France. His hour of triumph, ticked off by snipers' fire at him, was one for history. Eyewitnesses recorded...
...shipped 2,000 U.S. and British prisoners to Paris, marched them through the city for Paris to see. Last week the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung and other big German newspapers published two photographs. One showed a buxom Parisienne spitting in a British prisoner's face. Said the caption: "This Parisian lady could not be prevented from showing her disgust by spitting in the Englishman's face." The other picture showed a G.I. ducking a blow at his face delivered by a bespectacled bystander. Said the caption: "The population was so aroused against criminal terrorists that German soldiers were...
What the German pictures did not show, nor the papers tell, was that the "irate crowd" had been especially picked and hired for the occasion. Parisian trulls, pimps and petty criminals had been let out of jail if they promised to demonstrate against the Allied prisoners...
What makes Helen Goes to Troy as a show is the thing that has kept it alive for nearly a century: the inimitable lilt of Offenbach's music, a vulgar Parisian sheen that sparkles like the rhinestones in a cocotte's garter...