Word: performed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was no more opera that night in Aix-les-Bains. Later, the festival management issued an angry statement: the performance at which Baritone Valdengo balked was a retake for television kinescope, for which the rest of the company had readily agreed to perform free. Moreover, it was Monsieur Valdengo's fault in the first place: he did not know his part (he had pinned a copy of his score to his lyre), and had improvised to the point of making the retake necessary...
...Leavings. By mid-August, the only Frenchmen left in Paris are those frankly catering to the tourists. Hotspots on the Place Pigalle perform with sweaty, nude energy. The Casino de Paris turns away customers every evening, and at Maxim's the maitre d'hôtel, substituting for Albert (who has gone to Deauville), is hard put to find a latecomer a seat ("And will monsieur have champagne...
...aircraft plant in southern France last week, production was being stepped up on a trim, twin-jet plane with a graceful butterfly tail. The plane was France's Magister, a light, two-place trainer (made by Etablissements Fouga) that can hit 450 m.p.h., perform most of the maneuvers of heavier, more expensive combat cratt. The French air force has ordered 100 of the new Magisters; last week the hard-to-please NATO training committee was also recommending the plane to West Germany and other NATO nations as the standard basic trainer for fledgling jet pilots...
...hospital and medical service for all merchant seamen, but the specifics were woven into a broad pattern. The $3,500 saved each month by having a civilian concern clean the General Accounting Office Building in Washington was used to dramatize a recurring theme-private industry should be used to perform services for the Government whenever possible...
After four reels of struggle and starvation, the Young Composer manages to play snatches from his symphony for the Great Conductor, who is entranced. "We will perform it at Edinburgh next month," he promises, and the average moviegoer can go home happily confident that the Young Composer is over the last hurdle on the highroad to success-and perhaps even to Hollywood Bowl. But composers in the audience will have one more worry about the hero: Where will he get the $1,000 or so to pay for having his symphony copied so that it can be played...