Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dictum & Dry Rot. In 1920, with the backing of Ralph Pulitzer, who became the World's publisher on his father's death in 1911, Swope knocked out a few partitions to make himself a suitably imposing office, brought in the first rugs ever seen on the twelfth floor of the World building on Park Row, and hung on the door a brand-new title of his own devising: Executive Editor...
...occasion: the U.S. premiere of Jacques Offenbach's minor operetta Voyage to the Moon, based on Jules Verne's yarn. First performed in Paris in 1875, Offenbach's Voyage caused a momentary sensation among premature space bugs, then disappeared from the repertory and has rarely been seen since. The story, as revived by the newly formed Boston Opera Group, concerns one Prince Caprice of the Kingdom of Flambeau, who persuades the nation's top scientist, Dr. Blastoff, to design him a moon rocket with plushy upholstery, an anchor at its stern, gaily-blinking lights and signal...
...wife picks up the challenge, and the rest of the story describes how she almost wins her dirty little game. She seduces the chauffeur (Daniel Gélin). who seduces the maid (Jocelyne Mercier), who thereupon becomes a pliable witness to all sorts of things she imagines she has seen. In the end it takes some very clever police work by a marvelously grimacious flic (Bernard Blier) to bring the criminals to book-but then, come to think of it, what crime have they committed...
Terrebonne putters around, dreams of the old days and is never surprised by island foolishness because she has seen it all before. And always there is gossip and long-winded conversation that bring to mind a remark once made by Author Grau: "If I get hold of something that seems to be flowing, I can work all day long...
...nightmares. One account records, in the midst of gossip about prices, the story of a baby thrown from a refugee train. Another tells of "benzine poured over a young Jew" and fired. So common was death in the ghetto courtyards that the dead lay unburied, and children were seen at a game of "tickling the corpse...