Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorial desk of Petit Parisien sat the charming relict of the late Senator Paul Dupuy, famed Gallic publicist, looking over the latest batch of U. S. comic strips for her Sunday edition. Now and again as she listened to the hum of the presses she wondered whether today she had-scooped Senator François Coty, famed Gallic parfumier and editor of the new Ami du Peuple and other papers...
...death a year ago. 'Besides the Petit Parisien these include the Dimanche Illustre (the "Sunday Illustrated"), La Science et la Vie, a monthly magazine of popularized science, Omnia, a magazine for automobilists. The Sunday paper is edited after the fashion of the familiar U. S. Sunday sheet, including comic strips, many of which Mme. Dupuy imports from the U. S. Even strips involving baseball are used; and if Paris does not understand the game, well, so much the worse for Paris...
...playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny, novel and grisly to provoke the intended reactions among Manhattan susceptibles. In it, moreover, Nina Gore, daughter of blind onetime (1907-12) U. S. Senator from Oklahoma Thomas Pryor Gore, made a one-line stage debut; Flora Sheffield...
...member of the Midwestern association. There are three college comic associations: the Western, including colleges west of a line drawn south through Denver; the Eastern, including colleges east of a line drawn south through Pittsburgh; the Midwestern lying between...
There followed the Golden Age at the Metropolitan, with such singers as Nordica, Pol Plancon, Fremstad, the de Reszkes and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. But when Impresario Maurice Grau left, Schumann-Heink left too, went into a comic opera called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany...