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...Author. Educated at the Lycée Condorcet, Author Schlumberger, now 55, took up the study of religious history, gave it up before the War to write a play, poetry and novel. (His grandmother wrote children's books, his mother was a novelist.) With André Gide, he helped found La Nonvelle Revue Française, which published both Night Flight and Saint Saturnin. With Jacques Copeau. he founded the theatre of the Vieux-Colombier which produced two of his own plays...
...country. Huddled against Voronsky's coming are the whites under the leadership of a drunken riverboat captain (Richard Dix). They stand off Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid lover. Gwili André, a beauteous mannequin who deserted the fashion magazines for Hollywood, is the mysterious refugee suspected of being Voronsky's chattel. She falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture...
...nation of Centrists, a moderate land of thrifty folk, this shift was sufficiently dramati¶ Everyone agreed that it blasted and destroyed the power of the Right Centre coalition in the Chamber of Deputies whose leader is Premier André Tardieu, called "L'Americain" because of his go-gettishness. Looking for the next Premier of France, the nation shifted its attention from Paris-on-the-Seine 250 miles due south to Lyon-on-the-Rhone. Lyon presented a terrific sight...
Through the whole night Premier André Tardieu and most of the Cabinet remained at the hospital...
...Gentile André Tardieu, Premier of France, has been running the country supported by a Right-Centre coalition (TIME, March 7). As the campaign drew to a close last week both Jew Blum and Gentile Tardieu became speechless from talking too much, had to let their final speeches be read by leather-lunged henchmen. Premier Tardieu's laryngitis grew so bad that he dared not even venture out to ballot. Thus of the French "Big Three" there remained shouting to the end only that redoubtable Gentile, barrel-chested Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyons and leader of the second-largest...