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Born in Lorraine, Marianne Colin took her stage name from a stage character she much admired, unhappy Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts. For her, not only Cocteau but Andre Gide, Louis Aragon, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Yvain have written songs...
...suave insinuations. The girls in the chorus, though they danced well, looked, with one, or possibly two, exceptions, as if they had been chosen from the occupants of an East Side subway car before the rush hour. The Lief lyrics, though not Gilbertian, were cheerful; the music of Maurice Yvain was pleasantly plentiful...