Word: petit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is taken from my play, A La Creole, which was produced at Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré in New Orleans in 1927, by the Professional Players in Philadelphia and the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The speech in the play is made by a little Creole spinster doing job work in Madame Toup's carnival costume shop. Mademoiselle Titine says: "It was a religion my Pappa had for opera, yas. Me, I can show you that box at the opera where I am almost born! It was Les Huguenots and when the chorus sing...
...Puccini's opera La Tosca. They found in it an emotional release from their own pent-up bitterness and frustration under police tyranny. And never, they said, had the role been acted so realistically. It never had. The curtain did not rise again. Neither did the Baron. Petit Parisien reported that in the excitement of the performance the villain had actually been stabbed...
Last week a new drug, sponsored by Manhattan's Neurological Institute, joined the list: dl-glutamic acid hydrochloride. It is helpful only in petit mal (temporary loss of consciousness) and psychic attacks (unreasonable behavior with amnesia). It is not effective for convulsions. The drug probably acts by acidifying the blood-a beneficial effect formerly achieved only by an extremely unpleasant fatty diet...
...spacious days before World War I, Bunk used to "call his people home" with his own New Orleans boys-the Original Superior Band. Louis Armstrong, who followed Bunk around, carrying his trumpet, was only one of the many Negro trumpeters and cornetists (Tommy Ladnier, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard, Buddy Petit, Punch Miller) who learned from Bunk. And Bunk, who could play any tune in any key without stopping to think ("sharps and flats they never bothered me"), was the greatest of them all. Bunk, they said, "had more in his haid." He had played ever since his mother had bought...
...Alphand had to find a way to earn her living. Her friends had long admired her repertory of some 200 salty popular songs. Helped by a group of them (Lady Mendl, Henry Bernstein, Elsa Maxwell), she began appearing at a French hangout called Le Petit Palais. Among Manhattan's Francophile intelligentsia, her nostalgic music was sensational. Man hattan's Liberty Music Shop issued an album of Alphand recordings, quickly sold 1,000 copies...