Word: aiglon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only subject of the many so casually learned on which he is recognized as a specialist. He is a fairly good athlete, taller and heavier than he looks in his pictures; in spite of his size he wants to make a cinema of Rostand's L'Aiglon, playing the little prince. After being engaged for two years to Joan Crawford, whom his father and stepmother, Mary Pickford, were rumored not to like much, he married her last spring in Manhattan. Some of his pictures : A Woman of Affairs, The Barker, Fast Life...
...Unquestionably France's most brilliant poet-dramatist, author of Cyrano de Bergerac, L'Aiglon, Chantecler...
...Napoleon's intense desire for a legitimate heir* caused him to divorce Josephine, marry Marie Louise of Austria. Said he, on hearing of the prolific reproductivity of Marie Louise's ancestors: "That's the kind of a womb I want to marry." Marie Louise bore him a son, L'Aiglon, who died...
...shriveled eel. It was a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body at the postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze from the papier maché matrix made by his doctor, Antommarchi; innumerable letters, prints, cartoons, snuff boxes, medals, etc. Most of the exhibited items were from the Vignali collection, purchased in Europe three years...
...Aiglon", the drama of Edmond Rostand, is the play that has been chosen by the Dramatic Club for presentation on Saturday night. The performance will have nothing to do with the new Yale School of Dramatic Art, headed by Professor Baker, and is being presented by the Yale Dramatic Association unaided. The translation used will be an original one prepared by Basil Davenport, a Yale Junior...