Word: savoir
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...Town & Country was bound to change. In his dozen years as editor, he had tailored it to his own well-bred tastes; the Chief (a fellow alumnus of St. Paul's and Harvard) had never so much as peeked over his shoulder. Bull had tried to restore the savoir-vivre of the magazine's good old days (TIME, Dec. 16), had given "the wellborn, the rich and the able" a nodding acquaintance, at least with such dressy writers as W. H. Auden, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alec and Evelyn Waugh, Oliver La Farge...
Tallulah Bankhead is a first rate female who has the voice, the volatility and the savoir-faire to slip into a role as well tailored as her Mainbocher gown. As Amanda Prynne, a remarried divorcee on her honeymoon, she runs into her former husband, in a peculiarly identical circumstance, and complication set in. By the time the scene has changed from Southern France to Paris, they have started "afresh as two quite different people," leaving their respective spouses to the devil and fortunes of roulette. The pugilistie love affair that follows involves much description, mainly of a ringside nature...
...embroidery on the basic theme, the is laid in Occupied France and the criminal changes his spots by aiding the Underground. Errol Flynn carries of this part well and, with his customary savoir faire in matters feminine provides the romantic interest. For those who like expert acting. Paul Lukas gives his usual superb performance as an inspector for the Surote. Jean Sullivan a particularly pretty and capable actress by the simple country girl who regenerates Flynn and steels him for his sacrifice...
...deny that these weeks have already been instructive--we have learned to ride bicycles with savoir faire through the teeming traffic of Harvard Square, how to fill out pay receipts, we hope, how our pay accounts are figured out-well, almost. When the fog lifts, if ever, we will be an asset, not only to the WAVES, but to the Supply Corps. When and if, Congress passes the bill, we will be truly "Ready for Sea" after we have been there for some time...
Inspiring performances by Elizabeth Birdsall as Elizabeth Barrett and leading men John Alcorn '45 and Jack Sullivan '43, seem to have infused the cast with a degree of poise and general theatrical savoir faire totally unexpected in a college performance. However, much of the finished quality of the play must be traced to the director, Mr. A. E. Winkler, who has succeded in keeping it from the many pitfalls that usually plague amateur productions...