Word: aiglon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams as L'Aiglon. First editions of When Knighthood Was in Flower and an autographed photograph of John Philip Sousa...
...streets carrying shiny new bodies. Shoppers crowded the sidewalks. Department stores reported the best sales since 1930. Cinema theatres and night clubs were packed. At least seven Broadway dramas had played to full houses for a week or more. At the swankest cocktail bars in the town, L'Aiglon and the Book Cadillac, waiters got little sleep. Clerks and salaried workers grumbled as rents and food prices went up. Relief rolls had shrunk so low it was hard to find labor enough to finish public projects already started...
When the last curtain fell on a performance of L'Aiglon in Pittsburgh, freckled Actress Eva Le Gallienne stepped across the footlights. Said she: "Some stars and actors, seeing this small house, wouldn't work. They'd say 'to hell with it' and loaf through their performances. I think you'll agree that each member of our company tonight has given his best. Do me a favor. Go out and get more people to come here and see our show...
...years after the Bourbon Restoration, the French Film, "L'Agenie des Aigles" is a credible historical document. These soldiers who in a changed France have nothing left but their ardent admiration of L'Empereur try to bring about a return of the grand age by attempting to seat L'Aiglon, the young son of Napoleon, on the throne of his father. Although they fail in the attempt, their remarkable loyalty and indomitable courage is faithfully reproduced in this picture. Perhaps a bit remanticized in treatment, it nevertheless has captured the quiet heroism of these men as they succumb...
...motion picture, directed by Roger Richebe and with dialogue by Marcel Pagnol, is based on the novel "Les Demi Soide" by Georges Eparbes and deals with the efforts of the old soldiers of Napoleon to place L'Aiglon, Napoleon's son, on the throne of France. The cast includes Pierre Renoir as Colonel de Mentander. Constant Remy as Capitaine Deguereau. Debucourt as Lieutenant de Breuilly, and Annie Ducaux as Lise...