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...quick-witted Latins they took exactly ten and a half hours to decide the 1,956 issues raised by the case. Through a galaxy of Paris' highest paid and most dexterously emotional lawyers, all 20 defendants offered substantially the same defense: "misplaced confidence." They knew that the late Sacha Stavisky. alias Serge Alexandre, hobnobbed with Cabinet Ministers. They knew that a Rothschild had sold to Sacha horses which raced at Long-champ carrying his silks, while Sacha watched "from the box of the President of the Republic." They had heard of Sacha's obtaining for an Anglophile member...
...MEMORY SERVES-Sacha Guitry- Doubleday, Doran...
...Sacha Guitry's closest friends were the great Impressionist painter Monet and the independent man of letters. Octave Mirbeau. Among managers, Guitry's favorite was Michel Mortier, who produced his successful Le Kwtz. During the run of that play, Mortier learned that Edward VII, incognito in Paris, planned to visit his small theatre. Mortier hung out the Union Jack in preparation. Before the curtain rose, stately white-bearded King Leopold of Belgium unexpectedly appeared, seemed puzzled when the orchestra broke into God Save the King and Mortier, out of his head, jabbered...
Since If Memory Serves is a formless book, with Sacha Guitry's imagination ricocheting from one pleasant memory to the next, omissions are less important than they would be in a straight autobiography. But the references to Yvonne Printemps, his wife and co-star from 1919 to 1932, are surprisingly sparse, limited to a passing remark that Sarah Bernhardt witnessed their wedding and a brief account of their U. S. triumph. He says nothing of their divorce last year, of his triumph with his new leading lady-lovely, dark-haired Jacqueline Delubac, now the third Madame Sacha Guitry...
...judged from If Memory Serves, the low point of Sacha Guitry's career was the performance of La Clef, which he wrote for Rejane. During the third act the audience, already restless, was offended at a scene in which a husband became seasick after discovering that his wife was deceiving him. Stamping in urison began, accompanied by a strange laughter. The laughter was "transformed into a sort of murmur," then into a "more nervous, snickering laugh," a deep, terrifying silence, a low rumble, then hissing. "If you have never heard yourself hissed you can have no notion...