Word: femina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NATURAL MOTHER-Dominique Dunois-Macaulay ($2.50). This book was awarded the 1929 Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse, a cash prize of 5,000 francs offered annually by the two French magazines of that name. That it won the prize merely indicates that the French are not always so gay. Neither a cheerful nor an aphrodisiac story, its flaming jacket suggests that at least it has its lickerish moments. Not so. A stout French peasant lass, Georgette Garou, knows what she wants and goes after it with few words and indomitable dignity. She wants to keep her farm, to get a husband...
...22?Opening night of the American Repertory Company at Theatre Femina, Paris. First production: The Road to Rome by Robert E. Sherwood...
Soon he turned up in Paris with 20,000 francs, hired the Femina Theatre, and put on a vaudeville with Russian emigres, only three of whom were professional performers. The first attempt was creaky but a "moral success"; its possibilities were recognized by Charles Cochran, London producer. Under Mr. Cochran's management M. Balieff took the troupe to London. Shortly afterward "that stupid man" appeared, M. Balieff and his vaudeville opened in Manhattan and played 65 consecutive weeks; toured; became a U. S. institution...
...Lady Diana edited Femina, a sheetlet with which admirers said she made and unmade fashions and politicians. The year before she had won Queen Mary's consent to her entering the "flickers" (cinema). A husband was by no means a whole career for her. She talked of self-expression, said the cinema was "the most real form of romance modern life expresses." When invited to play the Madonna, which she alternates with the Nun in The Miracle, she "felt almost as though I had a vocation to act the part...
...immediately after this Boston engagement, so says the program, Balieff and his Chauve-Souris Company, are sailing for Paris to begin an engagement at the Femina Theatre. Here, in December 1920, the vastly, fat and vastly diverting Russian first gathered together the fugitive members of his original Bat Theatre of Moscow. It has been an eventful and profitable four years, in which the inimitable Balieff and his company of singers, clowns, and dancers have journeyed from Paris, to London, to America, and back to Paris again, finding everywhere the same joyous welcome...