THIBAUD'S CLAIM

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 6

THIBAUD'S CLAIM

REPORT"

;;DIp(:ir()T; DINE TOO'WBE^Ei )

. A Bingiilar .action in which bofh: personal /and': professional honour" are. involved: has: been brought: against a newspaper which'has a large circulation, in Nantes. / Tlie plaintiff is M.: Jacqueß Thibaud,; whb:..eujpys the "reputation Vof being, the-; greatest = s of;- cbhtempbrarj French -violinists. ... ■■'?:.y\\ '■:■'■':. :y-\''-y\/,'-

:, Keceritly'.'■M.^^^.Thibaudk^was'.to.' .hav,e given ; a', recital i .at.. , Na'nteig.'' >Whenj however,: the concertjhaUuwas'^iiled to overflowing ■ and/. the andience ;:-had, waited; in vain for the artist V. appearance^ it :was announced! that the recital, would hays to bo postponed.',:; >;::;.; ; -;": /'

'i. .Tho newspaper on the; iolld^ying day f published -as' an eisplanation' tW statement- that M.: Thibaud^hadidinedi anfl veined :too "copiously,^: ;antl found, himself indisposed, at; the hour fixed/forth^ ;baud;s'tates,'is.sp:';far;frbni- the ;trutti. that he; has rcalled; upon;, the; paper;-W■ jpay"him^^Bßoopv:damages.Vv/ : ;. ■.'<'"■}/1

The story of his having dined unwise-;: 7 ly• is,' he'declafes, a mischievous ; falsfi;-(;i.^ hood.'•;.,''_He could not appear at the eon--'-/ cert ■ because ;his car;had )>een tenVpoir-'; ;, arily held up by a snowstorm. The only":; ii ipersotal advantage;he!'seeks'.in the suit /"■ is : th6 removal: of. a slur, on his; honour .vJ', ■■ as an artist; and; a :gentlemanj • for -he';; j, has "announced . damages - ,hV ;ft may be awarded Will go .to -philanthropie, ; , "fr institutions,: ■, ~V;';'.>?;.■>?;.'.;■.'-,.::,,■ '■*\l?'-}': ■ ?v-v '.Wi-jl : One notdwdrthy:• i eature! of 'the -case? ,%■. is;that among the. witnesses ''Called byy:; Mi^Thibaud; will be fM.M./Herriot jind-, ; ,::;;v Leon" Berard, ;both formfer •Ministeirs :6f ■:;'■;:: Public 'Instruction. '1 They ;are Jip itestifyf ;!;*i to the ■ dan»ge:which; false "reports ;:cbii*;,-?:■-: cerning: French,artists >niight do;:td r; the; ■ ;;i' national; repntation7abroad.>:r^;^i:;;jj'";;ff