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...against chairs and calling hoarse warnings, ferried outsize trays of corned beef & cabbage. Powers models swirled among the 1,031 guests, handing out clay pipes. On the stage, aging Funnyman Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked wise, a line of Bloomer Girls pranced through a dance routine, Bing Crosby crooned Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, and then Morton Downey sang it again...
Laval turned philosopher. To a fellow prisoner going to death he said: "Ne t'en fais pas: it lasts only a few seconds . . . it's like being killed in a bus accident on the Place de 1'Opéra...
Still in their minds was Adolf Hitler's triumphal visit to Paris in June, 1940. He nursed three ambitions: to sign the armistice at Compiègne, to visit Napoleon's tomb and to enjoy a performance of the Paris Opéra. Hitler and his entourage were solicitously shepherded around the Opéra by agile, gypsylike ballet master Serge Lifar and the massive pro-German Wagnerian soprano, Mme. Germaine Lubin. Next night the opera company put on a command performance...
Money was as scarce as music was abundant, and Robert went to work as a percussionist in the Opéra-Comique; he rang the bells for Lakmé. Tympani took him through his Conservatory days, and then he went into the army. During his military career he solemnly rataplanned the drums at Versailles as Woodrow Wilson marched by with Clemenceau...
...oldest cities of which any record remains was Heliopolis (Greek for "City of the Sun"), prehistoric Egypt's capital and sacred seat of the sun god, Ra. Little is known about this late Stone Age city except that it was destroyed by war about 5000 B.C. Last week from Cairo came the news that archeologists, after long search, have finally found its site. The real discoverer, oddly, was a German professor in Berlin...