Word: soci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prokofiev: Classical Symphony (L'Or-chestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Munch conducting; English Decca, 4 sides). Conductor Münch often gallops through music that demands a more becoming pace; here, where they are not needed, he too often wears hobbles. Recording: excellent...
During 1949, and for a dog's age afterwards, cries like these will bring many of France's thoroughbred poodles and poms running to their masters. It came about in the natural course of a standing Société Centrale Canine de France (French Kennel Club) policy which decrees that all show dogs born in a given year bear the same initial. This year the club's registry reached the letter X. As France's dog lovers pored diligently over their dictionaries, they were reassured by club officials that it was not absolutely necessary...
Thirty years ago, France's finest orchestra, the 90-year-old Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, was embarked on a U.S. warship, destination New York. At their first concert in the Metropolitan Opera House, damp-eyed crowds cheered, for it was wartime, and the orchestra started off an evening of French masters with an unforgettable lump-in-the-throat performance of La Marseillaise. Banker Otto H. Kahn made an appropriate speech: "If we ever failed to understand her, the great soul of France now stands revealed in splendor...
...Monaco government, which owns 10% of the Société shares, had been no help, said Delpierre. It had backed union demands for higher wages while refusing to reduce its cut of 15,000,000 francs-some $125,000. (The Prince of Monaco also gets a cut.) The hard-pressed Société cut the work week, gave all hands a month's leave a year without pay, reduced the staff of 1,487 by lowering the retirement age. On their part, Monégasques blamed the Société for bad management and two poor...
...Société has been more direct. It sent out a cry of distress to shrewd, dapper René de Léon, who headed the company for 14 successful years (1922-36), is now a Hollywood hotelman (The Garden of Allah). Said he: "They asked me if I could find people here who would want to put money in to buy shares. They hoped I would return at the head of a wagonload of American gold. [The manager] came to me and said, 'Tiens! My friend, give me the best juice of your brains...