Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...drizzly afternoon last week, a train from Oranienburg rolled into Gesund-brunnen Station in Berlin's French sector. Haggard men in tattered clothes and bony, hollow-eyed women straggled onto the platform. Last to get out was a white-faced, white-haired old man with a frayed velvet-collared overcoat. He leaned gasping against a wall. "Yes, yes, from over there," he muttered. "I must be dreaming. Please don't ask me any questions...
TIME (Dec. 26) had reported that the French army's Chief of General Staff Georges Marie Joseph Revers had been relieved of duty because of a leak of French political secrets to IndoChina's Communists. For three weeks after the report was printed, the French government said not a word. A few French newspapers hinted at serious charges against Revers and his friend, retired General Charles Emmanuel Mast. In the cozy Chez Albert, where France's deputies dine in the shadow of the grimy Palais-Bourbon, hushed conversation turned more & more to I'affaire...
...Enchanted (adapted from the French of the late Jean Giraudoux by Maurice Valency; produced by David Lowe & Richard Davidson), whatever its weaknesses as a play, is frequently enchanting. A fantasy, as was Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, it uses a much slighter and more tremulous fable. Instead of grandly and wackily turning Paris upside down, it delicately turns existence inside out. Half the play merely suggests and evokes, like music; even the solider half is mostly talk...
...French provincial town suddenly everybody is happy and everything makes sense: the millionaire, for once, doesn't win the lottery or the mother superior the motorcycle. A horrified government inspector arrives to investigate such an unseemly state of affairs, discovers something worse-a pretty young schoolteacher who not only has her own whimsical version of the facts of life, but is seeking the facts of death from a ghost with whom she has romantic rendezvous. The inspector tries in vain to exorcise the ghost, who refuses to vanish until he notices the girl unconsciously responding to a flesh-&-blood...
...enormously. Many need the ax, many others the pruning knife, and even the best could use manicure scissors. But there are funny things in a take-off of a book-and-author luncheon, the plight of a man who has sworn off cigarettes, and a parody of a sentimental French chanteuse. Assisting-usually at their peril-are Comics David Burns and Jack Gilford, and Lenore (Junior Miss) Lonergan. Now grown up, Actress Lonergan should make a good comedienne when she gets the right comedy...