Word: americanâ
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...wants to be world tennis champion. Circumstances make it necessary for her to turn professional. She has English suitors. She becomes involved with an Argentine. She gambles at Monte Carlo. Her love affairs are complicated by a code of honor more British than Gallic, and solved by tactics allegedly American???but what shrewd Frenchwoman is ignorant of these? Some of the tennis scenes are a bit stodgy and childish, coming from a temperamental cosmopolite, but a big trente-et-quarante act redeems them. In fine, there is a thick sprinkling of evidence that within a certain bright bandeau...