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Montreal's Théátre du Gesu was sold out at every performance last week. The darling of the French Canadian theater, an impish comedian named Fridolin (real name: Gratien Gélinas) was on the stage in his new play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Laughter & Tears | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...accompanist to Baritone Pierre Bernac in a recital of the songs which, along with his religious choral works, have won Poulenc his share of fame. This week, a Carnegie Hall audience would hear him, too, as soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in his melodic Concert Champêtre for piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No. 6 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...that everything always went smoothly. To keep the Marquise Cassatti happy, the maítre d'hôtel himself had to fetch live rabbits for the two boa constrictors she kept in her bathroom. Once the management had to insist that the Countess de Salverte move out because her pet lion had grown too big. To survive World War II, the Ritz had to knuckle to such boorish guests as Hermann Göring. It salved its conscience by wheedling more food from the Nazis than it needed, supplying a lower-priced restaurant for Frenchmen around the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Ritz of the Ritz | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Harper, 1946). For $2.50 anybody can buy the formula, can test his own stuff. That people don't, for various reasons (i.e., it's a lot of work, people worry more about what they say than about how they say it), is the raison d'être of "readability experts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...drab years after World War I, automobile tycoons and politicians of the Third Republic elbowed out dukes and princes. Business came before pleasure even at Maxim's. Over Maître d'Hôtel Albert's homard à l'américaine, Cabinet careers were made and broken, and million-franc deals consummated. Maxim's ladies, the poules de luxe, often sat in lonely splendor until at long last a U.S. sugar king or Bolivian tin baron whispered in Gérard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Maxim's Is Back | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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