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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Duc was graduated by the French Naval Academy. He retired to specialize in physics, returned to the navy at the outbreak of the War, in which he won the tiny but coveted rosette of the Legion of Honor for his invention of a wireless receiver for submerged submarines. Last week's prize of $46,299 was awarded for his theory of wave mechanics in the problem of atomic constituion. Roughly and as elaborated by other researches, the Due de Broglie's theory is that matter consists of a series of waves as well as of corpuscles...
Threats and rumors of a sensational libel suit refocussed French attention last week on one of the most spectacular figures in the National Assembly, Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Senator of France...
Bald, paunchy and sallow, Baron Maurice is a grandson of James Rothschild, clever, redheaded Frankfort Jew who founded the French branch of his House, backed the governments of Louis Philippe and Napoleon III and was bitterly assailed in French Republican papers as "Rothschild I, King of the Jews...
...empirical as a banker. Unlike John Barrymore, who wanted to be an artist, she was early convinced that the theatre would be her life. Living in Paris from her third to fourteenth years, she attended the College Sévigné, developed a linguistic talent which now allows her. to talk French, German, Danish and Russian. In England she studied dramatics at Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Academy, made her début in London (1915) as a cockney girl in The Laughter of Fools. She reached the U. S. by making friends with Actress Elsie Jam's, whom she accosted...
Other Men's Wives. Elaborate and stupid tale of a French wayside inn with Claiborne Foster, orthodox detectives, lingerie, disguises...