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...Paris night clubs, Le Perroquet and Florida, giving imitations of Spinelli. Yvonne Printemps and Mistinguette, in French. At 16 she was Premiere Danseuse of the Lyon opera and at the season's end was dragged through the streets of Edouard Herriot's home town by 20 hysterical Frenchmen, dressed as U. S. sailors and shouting "Vive la Poupée!" That summer she spent in the castle of her grandmother, the Baroness Kometer in Austria. At 17 she was back...
...Edouard Daladier limited himself to a lukewarm acceptance of the four-power pact, there were many ventriloquist dummies available to say what he and most Frenchmen really felt. Loudest was the French Press, howling down the Mussolini Plan as an international plot to render France defenseless and rob her of hard-earned gains...
...Leon Fleischmann, persuasive New York advertising writer, to translate all Foreign Office statements into U. S. English before cabling them to the French Embassy and consulates in the U. S. Impressed, many a U. S. patriot hoped that the U. S. State Department would take heed, hire 100% Frenchmen to translate into 100% French the often bewildering (to Frenchmen) statements of the U. S. Embassy and consulates in France...
...Thrifty Frenchmen, famed for keeping their personal budgets meticulously balanced, have lately been angered, then amused by the French Treasury's "budget fantasies." Just how fantastic French finance has become was pictured in Paris' smart illustrated weekly Vu, copies of which reached the U. S. last week. Successively, as Vu points out, the French deficit for 1933 was estimated in November 1932 by Minister of the Budget Maurice Palmade at 12,100,000,000 francs; on Dec. 26 by Chairman of the Chamber's Finance Committee Lucien Lamoureux...
...proved vagrants, or 3) accused of a crime punishable by a term of more than two years. Appalled were police, prosecutors and feudal-minded deputies of the Right; jubilant was the League for the Rights of Man which had lobbied the bill through Parliament; more jubilant were 500 Frenchmen released like roaches in a thaw from Sante Fresnes and Petite Roquette prisons in Paris and hundreds more from provincial prisons...