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Trusted Servant. Among the servants in the palace was a dark, hollow-cheeked 18-year-old, Pham Ngoc Lan, whom Commissioner de Raymond affectionately nicknamed le petit Tho (Little Tho). He had come into the Commissioner's service last August. Unaccountably, he had not been given the usual security check, but his shy manner and rare smile had won the confidence of the household. He was even allowed to tidy up the fussy Commissioner's air-conditioned bedroom. Last month le petit Tho took a day off, rode a bus 36 miles to Banam, where...
...their loyalty and a certain affection. Among the crowds that jammed the streets at the end of his big day last week, a motherly Belgian woman watched the new King pass behind a prancing escort of mounted gendarmes in gleaming boots and top-heavy bearskin busbies. "Ah, le pauvre petit," she murmured. "All alone in his big auto...
...diplomat spoke before the Flemish Economic Association: in the audience was Premier Joseph ("Petit Père") Pholien, just back from the U.S. (TIME, April 16). Two nights later, at another dinner, Pholien replied. This time Ambassador Murphy was in the audience. Pholien said that Belgium's defense spending "would amount to 5.5%, not 5%, of its national product." He added that it is often misleading to compare defense expenditures of nations in terms of percentages of gross national product...
First-night fans saw a brilliant revolvable set of a little Paris street corner and its bistro. In his scenario, Petit turned the "beautiful woman" of his childhood into a jewel thief who steals diamonds "not to wear or sell, but to eat, like children crunch candy." The first the audience saw of her was a slim white arm and shoulder, snaking out through a hole in the wall to lift the wallets of passersby. When Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire finally turned up in full view (in sexy black tights) to sing & dance...
There was plenty of good choreography in Petit's individual, graceful, semi-acrobatic style. But La Croqueuse, with its first-class songs (including one sung by Petit himself), was pretty close to musicomedy too. That is a combination that appeals to Petit more & more. He thinks he would like to do a writing-composing-producing-choreographic job on a real U.S. musicomedy, says "Now I know a little...