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Last year, directing The Razor's Edge, he objected to the music written for a Montmartre café scene. He whistled a new tune, which was picked up by a studio accordion player and transcribed for orchestra. The studio got 5,000 letters asking about the song. After that Tin Pan Alleyman Mack Gordon wrote a slushy verse to go with Goulding's mushy tune...
...small café, Mam'selle...
...were for the most part hardworking, serious writers who lived at a safe distance from their rambunctious disciples. When Sinclair Lewis - arch-progenitor, to the average expatriate, of "the stenographic, Pullman-smoker school of writing"-visited Montparnasse and sat himself down at a conspicuous table in one of the cafés, every expatriate eye turned icily away. "Little" magazines such as transition, Broom, Secession, and Gargoyle occupied a position of huge magnitude in the expatriate eye. Putnam tells the dismal tale of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie's wife, whom Putnam found one day close to tears. "Line...
...Paris last week, with the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's cable still not answered, Champion Pauline Betz was outlawed from amateur tennis. "I'm not going to sit in a corner and cry about this," she said. But an hour later, at a sidewalk café on the Champs Elyseés, her little glass of jus de fruits was still untouched in front of her and Pauline seemed undecided what...
...narrator, a gentlewoman who has come down in the world, sees and tells the whole story from her knees as she scrubs the floor of a French provincial caf...