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...Premier Edouard Daladier who also blames the President for the wreck of the London Conference, and sought to soothe the Frenchman with a cheery verbal message from Mr. Roosevelt. These chores done, Mr. Davis proceeded to sit in at Paris on disarmament parleys with British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour and Italian Ambassador Count Pignatti-Morano Di Custoza. The French thesis, vehemently presented by shaggy, voluble M. Paul-Boncour, is that French spies have obtained ample proof that Germany is secretly rearming in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, that only by setting...
Hold Your Horses (libretto by Russel Grouse & Corey Ford; music & lyrics by Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Owen Murphy). ''The locale of this comedy is New York City at the turn of the Century," says a program note by Messrs. Grouse & Ford. "If any member of the audience can detect the slightest error in atmosphere or historical data, the authors would be greatly obliged if he would please keep his mouth shut about it." It would be more to the point if Author Grouse (It Seems Like Yesterday, Mr. Currier & Mr. Ives) and Funnyman Ford should defy their...
...permanently defeated organization," and in preferring a temporary compromise to the awful alternative of seeing O'Brien untoppled, and his dispensation retained, but there is in Mr. Thomas' position far more dignity, far more of that contemptuous idealism which ennobles Rousseau than of that mild practicality which makes Saint Simon, in the long perspective, seem more than a little ridiculous...
When the late Louisiana Collector Caspar Cusachs died, his heirs found Marie Leveau in his collection, sold the portrait to New Orleans Stockbroker Simon J. Shwartz. In 1926 he smilingly turned down an offer of $5,000. Hit by Depression, he later offered Queen Marie for $1,000, found no takers. Last week the Louisiana Historical Society bought the portrait for $126, to hang in the Society's collection in the Cabildo on Jackson Square. Through New Orleans, where "Marie Leveau charms" are still sold by obscure druggists and necromancers, rose last week a babble of amazing tales about...
...earliest aerial-wedding proposal on record was made by the French Socialist Philosopher Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon. In 1802 he learned of the death of the husband of famed Essayist Mme Anne Louise Germaine de Staël. Promptly the Comte divorced his own wife, hastened to Geneva, informed Mme de Stael that he and she, ''the most extraordinary persons who exist.'' would be married in a balloon and would create a child "who will startle the world at large." Mme de Staël said...