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...trial lawyer in France is richer or more feared than that spry little Senator with a great mop of grey hair, Maître Joseph Paul-Boncour. In Geneva they used to know him as the perennial No. 2 French Delegate to the League, Aristide Briand being No. 1. Often, while No. 1 slumbered or seemed to slumber in his aisle seat, blocking the egress of other French Delegates, nimble No. 2 would leave and return to his seat by leaping lightly over a desk, thus permitting No. 1 to slumber...
Briand is dead. In Geneva last week Maître Paul-Boncour, now Minister of War, was the French No. 1. With great finesse he divulged to the Disarmament Conference Bureau somewhat more-but not too much-of the new French Disarmament plan (TIME, Nov. 7). Still tentative, the plan will be shaped into its final form partly on the basis of European reactions to the Paul-Boncour speech, partly in an effort to please the next U. S. President. Last week the great French lawyer orated extempore for more than an hour, several times referred unmistakably to Germany without...
When Composer Italo Montemezzi wrote L'Amore dei Tre Re, Poet Sem Benelli provided him with a libretto which cried for music of exquisite passion and tenderness. The fact that parts of it recall the music of Tristan & Isolde never seemed important. Montemezzi's score has surge and spontaneity of its own, enough to arouse high hopes for his one-act La Notte di Zoraima (The Night of Zoraima), given its U. S. premiere last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...Chef Gastaud used to cook for food-fond Edward VII. Director of the Towers will be Commendatore Guilio Gelardi who is being loaned by Claridge's of London for the fall and winter seasons. But best known of the Waldorf potentates will be Oscar Tschirky, 65, maître d'hôtel at the old Waldorf, with whom the tycoons and celebrities of many lands are proud to claim acquaintance. During the past year the new Waldorf's publicists have attempted to make even more fabulous the legend of "Oscar of the Waldorf," recalled from...
...Night of Death is the first of Marie Bregendahl's books to be translated into English. She is the 64-year-old onetime wife of the late Poet Jeppe Aakjar. Her other books (part of a series?Billeder Fra Sodalfolkenes Liv): Ahilda, Peter Guldgraver Og Hans Eneste Ven, Tre Gamle Kvinder...