Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dropping his vacation on the Riviera, dusky, fortyish Prince Sisowath Moni-vong of Cambodia, small State of south Indo-China, enlisted in the French Army for the duration. Two U. S. aviators disputed priority in enlisting with French forces: Clifford H. de Roode, former pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, now attached to the First Regiment of Foreign Infantry; and Steele Powers, a 27-year-old Atlanta, Ga. boy, who was accepted immediately, sent to the front, saw action within two weeks...
...Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned male comedians' parts would be taken for the first time by women, releasing the men for war action. London night life revived. The Cafe de Paris, an official public air-raid shelter for 200, packed in more than that...
...Ministry along with the Prime and Defense Ministries which he already held, became its dictator. He gathered around him, to help him draw up emergency decree laws, a collection of brilliant World War heroes. Among the seven new men in the Cabinet were at least ten wounds, three Croix de Guerre, over a dozen citations for bravery. The men were all of Big Business color, but of technical shade: practical, juristic, masters of concrete planning rather than grandiose theorizing. Most important move aside from the shelving of Georges Bonnet was the creation of a Ministry of Armaments, and the selection...
...develop special talent for the camera but made movies that attracted and used the seasoned acting personnel of the French theatre. For The End of a Day, a photographic plate recording with sharp sensitivity the emotional atmosphere of a home for retired actors, Director Julien Duvivier (Poil de Carotte, Un Cornet de Bal) recruited a cast that includes many a distinguished veteran of the Paris stage, headed by polished, twinkling Louis Jouvet, a director of the Comédie-Française and one of France's most illustrious actor-managers. Beautifully played to the last...
When aging Actor St. Clair (Jouvet) leaves his troupe after an unsuccessful tour, he says he is going to retire to his estates, but his companions know that he is really going to the Abbaye de St. Rivière, baven for indigent old actors. Greeted there as a hero, surrounded by old women who were once his lovers, St. Clair also meets embittered Marny (Victor Francen), who has been obsessed for years by the suspicion that his wife killed herself after St. Clair tired of her. When St. Clair attempts to renew his youth by captivating a simple-minded...