Word: aux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to take in return for the security resulting from international arms control. Meanwhile restive Paris newspapers raised the bugaboo of Germany's threat last year to withdraw from and wreck the Disarmament Conference unless granted "equality of armaments" (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Chancellor Hitler-cartooned by Paris Aux Ecoutes as a hawk with swastika talons hovering over the Disarmament Conference dovecote from which peep Chairman Arthur Henderson, Premier MacDonald and M. Paul-Boncour (see cut)-was said to be ready to press the same threat again. Anxiously Mr. Davis, Sir John and M. Paul-Boncour hurried to Geneva...
Ambassade de la Republique Francaise aux Etat-Unis Washington...
Plaudits for giving space to Aux Frontières du Jazz (TIME, Jan. 2), a much-needed book in America and one which we hope will let in the light about true jazz. The "musicians' " jazz band, as opposed to the public's, has never before had a champion. As jazz music auditors become educated they invariably rely on the concoctions and artistry of such as Frank Trumbauer, the Dorsey brothers, the late Bix, Red Nichols, Jack Teagarden and Louis (The Great) Armstrong for satisfaction...
...produced jazz music but it has little critical discrimination, no authoritative history of jazz. It has remained for Europe, which first understood the poetry of Poe and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, to produce an extensive and scholarly appreciation of U. S. jazz. In a book called Aux Frontieres du Jazz, now current in Paris, Robert Coffin, Belgian musical essayist, explains fastidiously what every good jazz musician knows but few would be able to express: that the true heroes of jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi...
...pear, there lived a free & easy young woman of striking beauty named Marie Duplessis. A series of shocking excesses brought about her death at 24. In 1849, Dumas fils contributed to the already considerable body of legend surrounding Mlle Duplessis' career by writing a play, La Dame aux Camélias, in which the heroine, subsequently impersonated by Duse, Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing angel-on-earth who gives up her life for a pure love. No more wan, pale or pathetic lady of the camellias ever crept the boards than Lillian Gish...