Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving through all this is one remarkable character, a waiter (Edouard La Roche) who is a cross between the Admirable Crichton and a Christian saint. To all emergencies he responds with almost divine calm and good sense, never forgetting his hospitality. As the flames lick up over the roof's parapet he is still offering to bring blankets, wine, hope, dernier confort...
...Fable loses its exhilaration long before the conclusion of Act II when Antoine (Ronald Squire), the maitre d'hotel and god of Playwright Edouard Bourdet's machine, explains that he is going to walk home, not for the exercise but for a breath of fresh air. By that time the overlong tale of a canny matriarch has palled. Mme Leroy-Gomez (Helen Haye) raises her two elegant sons to prey on women, undergoes many a humorous travail keeping their shoulders to the wheel. One, married to a rich Argentine, almost loses his wife because of an infatuation...
...Quai d'Orsay. replied that the efficacy of the large, well-paid Jugoslavian army was seriously damaged by Croat and Slovene plottings, that the dictatorship must be ended in order to bring these recalcitrants into line before the money bags jingled again. President Thomas Masaryk and Foreign Minister Edouard Benes of Czechoslovakia, another of France's allies, were equally insistent...
...Foreign Affairs last week. More police and Republican Guards were on reserve in the Gare des Invalides nearby. Precise reporters announced that it was the largest massing of police at the Chamber since that memorable day in 1926 when the people of Paris attempted to dunk Prime Minister Edouard Herriot in the Seine. Word had gone round that an attempt was to be made on the life of Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister...
...Senator Robert Johns Bulkley were paying high prices to import Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, Detroit last week followed up an experiment. Detroit four years ago had no local opera. The idea of one originated with Thaddeus Wronski (Ziembinski), a Polish basso who had studied with famed Edouard De Reszke. He came to the U. S. to sing with the Boston Opera Company in 1911, and ended by giving vocal lessons in Detroit...