Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cafe Metropole (Twentieth Century-Fox). When the suave proprietor (Adolphe Menjou) of the Paris cafe where she is dining with her father and aunt tells her that a Russian prince, Alexis Panaieff, requests the honor of being presented to her, Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young) is delighted. She recognizes the prince (Tyrone Power) as a young American whom she has encountered once before, and when his preposterous Russian accent makes it doubly clear that he is an impostor, she decides definitely to marry him. What Laura does not know is that marrying her is Prince Alexis' job, assigned...
...fragile anecdote, Cafe Metropole turns out to be thoroughly entertaining. Russian Actor Ratoff, who wrote the story from which Author Jacques Deval (Tovarich) adapted the screen play, acts his fat part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...
Though 5,000.000 French workers, benefiting from cultured, straggle-haired Socialist Premier Blum's new social laws, are enjoying a 40-hour working week, there was plenty of discontent in France last week. Hotel, restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers...
...Germany have averaged a million marks a year. Three weeks ago an order was issued forbidding Jewish organizations of any sort to hold any meetings whatever for 60 days. So stringent was this rule that if so many as five Jews should meet over a herring in a public cafe they might be liable to arrest...
This arrondissement in northern Paris is a factory workers' district, almost solidly Communist but with a minority of hard-headed little cafe and shop keepers who are tough - or with their middle-class ideas they would not live in Clichy. Some of these shopkeepers belong to the new French Social Party, successor to the bourgeois Croix de Feu league of gentle manly and insipid Colonel Count Casimir de La Rocque (TIME, April 20). Last week the Social Party hired the Olympia cinema house in Clichy for a special showing of their film La Bataille. Communists at once protested. Paris...