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...guerrilla attacks back in the Hanoi delta, each an apparently independent operation, except that they all occurred in areas between Hanoi and the sea, the escape route for the French. But in Hanoi nobody worried. Staff officers bought their ladies posies at the flower stalls by the glassy Petit Lac, dined sumptuously at Le Manoir or the Hotel Metropole or danced with taxi-girls at the Ritz and Paramount. At night, beneath their mosquito nets, they listened to the comfortable sound of their own artillery. Said an official spokesman: "There appears to be no reason why the besieged defenders...
...Demoiselles de la Nuit, a premiere for Boston, was the most enjoyable selection of the program. From the humorous antics of cats to the tragedy of a human-feline love, Roland Petit's ballet is both original and dramatic. Tall and tensile Mary Ellen Moylan conveyed the struggle of her love, arching and pawing with convincing quickness and grace. Her costume, as well as those of the ensemble, and the scenery contributed to the frenzied effect...
...days, $4,000,000 budget) production. The picture has mammoth sets-e.g., a Copenhagen square complete with shops, canal, bridge, market and opera house. It has four lavish ballets, among them the 17-minute-long Little Mermaid number, danced by lively, poodle-topped French Ballerina Jeanmaire, Choreographer Roland Petit of the Ballets de Paris, and a chorus of mermaids among $400,000 worth of underwater caves, fish netting, giant shells, ship spars and Technicolored jetsam. Frank (Guys and Dolls) Loesser has written eight catchy songs, among them three based on Andersen tales, Little Thumbelina, The Emperor...
This fall, in a sober moment, the student body voted in a "petit prohibition." No liquor may be consumed after 1 a.m., and the Sunday milk-punch parties have given way to discreet tippling between noon and 2 p.m. This year's Dartmouth weekend is shaping up as a good subject to omit in letters to sensitive parents...
...Matignon, his official Paris residence, and slips away to look over the prosperous tannery he still owns in Saint-Chamond, and to chat with local shopkeepers and housewives about the problem on whose solution he has staked his political future: how to cut prices, hold back inflation. Recently, le petit Premier made a startling discovery: high prices are caused not simply by "greedy capitalists," as the Socialists and Communists would have it, but by "thrifty" French housewives who have forgotten how to be thrifty...