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...Britain: Quand partay...
...gracefully sung Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello (recorded in 1910) and Baritone Mario Ancona's Eri tu from The Masked Ball (1907). Even scratchier is Luisa Tetrazzini's carelessly sung Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro (1908). Enrico Caruso's faltering Rachel, quand du seigneur, from La Juive, was recorded in 1920 when the great tenor's voice was running down.* Victor has far better Tetrazzini and Caruso records in its files, and obviously wasn't shooting the works the first time around...
...that the Rhineland need not necessarily be severed from Germany, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin tried to reopen talks on a Franco-British alliance. But Socialist Gouin's Cabinet colleagues strenuously objected. As torchbearers for Charles de Gaulle (who, in retirement at Marly-le-Roi, spoke of the time "quand je reviens-when I return"), the Popular Republicans (M.R.P.) held out stubbornly for the "political internationalization" of Western Germany. The Communists suspected that French, British and German Socialists were plotting another Socialist version of the Western Bloc. In a stormy Cabinet session, President Gouin was overwhelmed by pressure from both...
...literary allusion that no Frenchman applied to the bluff of a weak France trying to carry out a strong-arm foreign policy was a line from Edmond Rostand's Chantecler: "Quand le paon n'est pas là, le dindon fait la roue-When the peacock is away, the turkey spreads his tail...
...grew up in Newburyport, Mass., went to Harvard, worked on the Boston Transcript, served in France during World War I. After a year on the New York Tribune, he tried advertising, became one of the Satevepost's most skillful authors. In his Satevepost days Mar quand created the character of Mr. Moto, a sapient Japanese detective. After Pearl Harbor Marquand interned Mr. Moto. Said Marquand: "I rather liked him . . . but now it seems I had him all wrong. A veritable wolf in sheep's clothing...