Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from her phonograph records alone. In France hers outsell all others. "Parlez-moi d'Amour" topped 350,000. Other big sellers have been "Si Petite," "Attends," "Sans Toi," "J'ai laissé mon coeur," "Désir," "Garde moi dans tes bras," "Parle moi d'autre chose, " "Moi j'crache dans I'eau," "Ballade." The songs have wide variety but Lucienne Boyer's stage costume is always the same: deep blue velvet for which she chooses blue or amber lights. They suit her reddish brown hair, large brown eyes, full red lips. Her private...
Director Vidor picked up his extras from the unemployed on Los Angeles streets, chose a dirt farm for his location where for two months he drew blue prints of each day's shooting. Result is a well-paced, high-pitched picture which, though it strikes no alarming political note, should help King Vidor keep his shirt...
...reception in his honor, exhibited such typographical curiosities as a leaf from a Gutenberg Bible, an old hat belonging to Mr. Goudy, a gold matrix of a swash "G."* Spectators were informed that never before in the history of typography had anybody cut a matrix of gold. Mr. Goudy chose "G" because it stands for Goudy...
...settled in Pittsfield for his health. Her father had been Albert Arnold Sprague of Chicago, a wealthy wholesale grocer who had indulged his daughter's desire to study the piano and compose. Her house quartet gave her the greatest satisfaction she had ever known. She chose its programs, watched always for undiscovered talent. Often she, too, played with a remote, wooden touch which revealed her increasing deafness...
...Authors. Because they are poets, Robinson, Spender and Auden are not typical citizens of their respective countries. Old Poet Robinson, Maine-born, Harvard-bred, chose the uncrowded profession of poet at an early age. Establishing himself in Manhattan "in a sordid stall on the fifth floor of a dreary house," he kept himself and Pegasus fed by doing odd jobs, was once a construction inspector on the subway. Only U.S. poet ever reviewed by a U.S. President, Robinson got more attention when Theodore Roosevelt wrote an encomium of his poetry in the Outlook, and offered him a consulship in Mexico...