Word: frenches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This must be the French cousin of our story. Or is ours the American version of the French story? Is there an English cousin? Will this story pop up wherever Hitler's mere existence is a blight or a threat? It is almost a folk tale already. I should like to hear further news...
...annals will feature not only the Maginot line and pocket battleships but a new quick-firing, self-loading weapon called the Bureau of Public Information. While Nazi planes ripped up Poland, the allied bombers buried the country-side with pamphlets. Along the Westwall, scores of victrolas blared at the French through loudspeakers: "Lay down your arms. We have no quarrel with you." From their Whitehall desks English officials are preaching to the world a poilus legend of crusade...
...outdone, the French have devised a new strategy aimed at hypnotizing the enemy from the front while the right wing encircles the main body and gradually crushes it in a firm embrace. Trained at the Ecole Militaire de Hollywood, Mr. Charles Boyer has been intrusted with the command. The first move will be a nation-wide series of lectures to American women's clubs. Boyer is just the man for the job. Daladier can bully the Chambre and make it take notice. Bonnet knows his finance. Weygand can play a campaign over his morning coffee. But only Boyer...
...night of Boyer and Dunne facing the rising flood in a Long Island organ loft. But subtic and dangerous as his message may be, Boyer will be severely handicapped. Subtic and dangerous is the message that will be spread around the women's clubs of America. Before the French have won their first battle, Boyer will have organized a powerful lobby of women bent on sending their sons and sweethearts into European trenches...
Unfortunately, Betty Grable has to wear a few clothes; in fact, during the French court scenes, she has to wear a hoop skirt. Such superfluous drapery is the worst sort of nuisance to this particular bundle of joy, for gentlemen, those pictures you've seen don't lie. She provides the visual stimulus, while Ethel Merman tickles the erotic funnybone. Ethel could put over a song to a deaf mute and teach the facts of life to a Trappist monk by gestures alone. And also, there's Bert Lahr, who seems to have brought the Lahr leer...