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Edouard Bourdet is director of the Théâtre Français, better known as the Comédie Francaise, which is the haughtiest and most famous theatre in the world. Recently the Comédie Franchise was delighted to honor French Playwright Henry Bernstein's Judith. But not, in Bernstein's opinion, to rehearse it properly. Thereupon Bernstein naturally insulted Bourdet. Bourdet naturally challenged Bernstein to a duel. It was Bourdet's first, Bernstein's ninth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Swords at Lunchtime | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Fran Linz Beermann will be played by Miss Victor. Fran Bolland, Miss Garfield; Fran Lund, an elderly lady, Miss Constable; Effle, Beermann's daughter, Miss Chaffee; Ninon de Hauteville, a lady of leisure, Miss Dorothea Macmillan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Club to Present Satire on Life In German Duchy on Saturday Evening | 5/26/1938 | See Source »

Appeals for funds plaster their front pages. Jacques Doriot's La Liberté urgently needs 500,000 francs. Fascist Col. François de La Roque's Petit Journal, panhandling for millions, has founded a "Club of Friends of the Petit Journal" who give up cigarets or lipstick to contribute 10 francs a month. The Royalist Action Francaise, perennially broke, is still begging another 1,000,000 francs-starting a new campaign on the heels of an old one. Young L'Epoque must have 6,000,000 francs or it will close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Echo to Day | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...talks like an embryo Göring, last week failed to lead his organization through its latest crisis. He was in Brussels for an "antiCommunist" meeting with two other equally unsuccessful but considerably more authentic advocates of totalitarian government-Belgium's Léon Degrelle, France's François Casimir de La Rocque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bund Banned | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Probable starters for the Freshmen are Hal Lubchansky and either Bill MacDonald or Don McSweeney at forwards, Homer Peabody at center, and Bob James and Fran Simpson at the guard posts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING CAGERS FACE TABOR ACADEMY TODAY | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

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