Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither letter mentions the name of the opponent in question, the whole controversy, in typical Harvard fashion, being put on a high moral level, but the feline bitterness involved is very biting...
...been bickering by cable for weeks with Siamese Premier Bahol, the rough & ready General who won the Second Revolution which has not dethroned Prajadhipok. If only someone at Singapore, probably a cable relay clerk, had not blabbed, His Majesty might have continued for months or years in languid Siamese fashion to treat with his obstreperous Premier...
This is Ketti Gallian's first feature cinema. Producer Winfield Sheehan signed her in London, where, playing in The Ace, she had been enough of a success to start two fashion fads: red hair ribbons and black silk stockings. Previously she had been a chanteuse in French cafés, had made French shorts. While in The Ace, she used to fly to Paris every week-end to see the races at Longchamps. Her first Hollywood contract contained a clause making it compulsory for her to speak perfect English in 100 days. Before the time expired, studio officials made...
...slim, slight comedy concerns an impoverished French gentleman, a refugee from the Revolution, named Paul (Pierre Fresnay). Turning adventurer, he picks up a virginal chanteuse, takes her across the Channel to Brighton. It is 1811; Brummell struts at Bath; in & out of prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl of Harringford offers her protection...
HELL! SAID THE DUCHESS-Michael Arlen-Doubleday, Doran ($2). A trickster in a tricky trade. Author Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen) has altered the cut of his books at fashion's wink. Ladies in green hats are long passées, but duchesses are never out of style. Hell! Said the Duchess is nicely calculated to tickle the fancy of detective-story addicts, of tycoons tired of trilogies, of all persons except young children who are for the moment sick of being serious...