Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reveals Colonel Lindbergh hearkening sympathetically to a beauteous young U. S. girl who passionately loves-a Frenchman. Unfortunately her U. S. father thinks that all Frenchmen are "lousy, dirty frogs" (Hisses from Audience...
With boyish dignity and innocence Le Colonel decides to span the Atlantic, uniting citizens of France and the U. S. by a common bond of heroism, and thus powerfully inducing the U. S. father to let his daughter marry the Frenchman...
Thus far the audience sees only Lindbergh Number One, played by M. Armand Chatraine, a youth who was thought by all his friends to resemble the Colonel at the time of Lindbergh's actual landing in France (TIME...
...smash-finish of the play brings on Lindbergh Number Two, played by M. Pierre Tristan, who never realized that he resembled the Colonel until a Paris mob recently descended upon him (TIME, Oct. 1) and bore him shoulder high, under the impression that the real Lindbergh had slipped back to Paris...
...Want a Man," growled Libby Holman, and, although she frowned as she intoned her need, no one could understand why it was not instantly gratified; Louise Brown pretended charmingly to be a Colonel's daughter. While its colours were a little too bright, the Rainbow was a pleasant thing to see and, because of its rowdy theme, a good omen for future minstrelsies...