Word: directeur
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...Montreal district. Travelers looking for suites with antique furniture and plasma-screen-TV-equipped, marble-encased bathrooms can alight here for $300 to $3,750 a night. A bit pricey, non? "Our guests don't ask the price, they ask for the square footage," sniffs the hotel's directeur-general Guy Luzy. If price does matter, try the Hotel Gault (514-904-1616), a minimalist gem where classic 20th century fixtures and furniture are set against bare white, oak or hot-rolled-steel walls and concrete floors. Tucked away on a quiet Old Montreal street, the Gault's design aesthetic...
...heirs of Federalist economics, Cadillac was exhibiting their new Directeur. At their show room, the Directeur, "superbly designed for the many requirements of a busy executive," was the star attraction. It included a secretarial compartment, ticker tape news screen, phonograph, and telephones. Inside sat a capitalistic-looking executive and a pretty secretary neatly stowed in her special compartment which faced backward from the front seat...
...opera Louise collapsed in the second act. The director remembered the girl who had been watching rehearsals, sent for her, asked if she could finish the performance. Mary Garden had never sung on a stage, never sung with orchestra. But she did not hesitate, said: "M. le Directeur, have no fear. I shall not fail." She recalls now trying postehaste to loop in the costume of the larger soprano, thinking: "My God, in all this huge place, isn't there anybody who has a pin?" Her performance created a sensation. Her voice was curiously husky, uneven, but she played...
Monsieur Augusto V. Desclos, Directeur-Adjoing. Office National des Universities et Ecoles Francaises will lecture to members of the Graduate School of Education and others who may be interested, on "The French Educational System" this evening at 8 o'clock in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House...
From the Louvre, Harvard has drawn Monsieur Marcel Aubert as Lecturer on Fine Arts for the first half year. He will lecture on Gothic Architecture and Sculpture of the Culmination in France. Monsieur Aubert is Conservateur au Musee du Louvre, Directeur de la Societe d' Archeologie, and Professeur a l'Ecole des Chartes...