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Tourists Only. When Auric first took on the weighty title of Administrateur de la Réunion des Théátres Lyriques Nationaux, he took on a ponderous load of problems as well (TIME, April 27, 1962). Mired in a vast swamp of bureaucracy, militant unions and second-rate talent, the state-operated Paris Opera had foundered helplessly for nearly two decades. Five postwar administrators had promised revolution, only to sink quietly into the morass. Some tried staging productions à la Folies-Bergère, featuring flights of ballerinas being hoisted to heaven on wires, madly flapping their arms...
...perhaps superfluous to emerge from well earned retirement. Last week, however, he followed the bier of an old friend and broke his long silence as he stood beside the open grave. The dead man thus greatly honored was M. Gustave Geffroy, 71, Président de 1'Académie Goncourt, Administrateur de la Manufacture des Gobelins,* a loyal associate of M. Clemenceau in his long fight to secure the freedom of Captain Dreyfus...
This Society held its second meeting yesterday evening. It was well attended. Mr. Cohn read a very interesting paper on the Comedie Francaise. This is a national institution. Napoleon signed the decree which settles the constitution of this society at Moscow, 1812. The president is called administrateur and is appointed by the government. The Societaires are the members who have been elected into the Comedie Francaise; the pensionaires, members who have been engaged by the administrateur. A committee is appointed to decide whether a play shall be produced or not; every play has to be read before them. The professors...
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