Word: oeufs
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...oeuf en gelée, for two years voted "Menu-Item-Most -Likely-To-Be-Left-On-Plate" by my Intermediate French students, is enjoying new prestige...
Confirmed balletomanes of the old school won't like what Petit has the temerity to call another "ballet," a lunatic romp called "L'Oeuf a la Coque." In this explosive and completely delightful work the dancers do handsprings, cartwheels, splits, and double splits--as well as a few bumps and grinds. All this happens when three leggy girls arrive in Hell in the form of chickens. They are danced into ovens by friends dressed as chefs, but soon emerge and proceed to seduce their would-be tormentors. The fiends don't have much of a chance...
...shorter ballets are also in the program. "Le Combat" is based on a canto of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered." In it Collette Marchand, who also stars in "L'Oeuf a la Coque," dances beautifully in a more traditional style. "Le Rendevous" is a somber and moody ballet of Paris which features Henry Danton. As good as they are, these suffer by comparison with such excitingly imaginative spectacles as "Carmen" and "L'Oeuf a la Coque...
...taken more seriously in England and the U. S. A. than in her native France. In London Mme Tabouis is not taken seriously by "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton), Beaverbrook's amusing columnist for his two-million-circulation Daily Express. To "Beachcomber," Tabouis is Mme Tabouche (of L'Oeuf) who is continually seeking fulfillment of her prophecy that Iceland will march on Bessarabia...
Recently "Beachcomber" punned thus: "SMALL PROPHETS AND QUICK RETURNS. There is a rumor that a whale mistook Mme Tabouche of L'Oeuf for a prophet and swallowed her. On finding out its mistake, it released...