Word: frenchwomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rockettes reach Paris June 25, will put up in suburban St. Cloud. Twelve Frenchwomen, hand-picked by Exposition authorities, will look after the Rockettes during their two-week stay to help keep their discipline and deportment up to its high U. S. standard. For their official appearance, the Rockettes will dance four of their most famous routines in 16 minutes: Military March, in which 72 legs operate as synchronously as two; a buck & wing number; Midshipmen, a fast, stylized version of Annapolis drills; Beguine, a sultry, rumba-ish performance for which the girls make up like mulattoes...
...highest birth rate. In Germany, too, the statistics are pertinent. Since Adolf Hitler suppressed nude dancing the Nazi birthrate has risen 35,000 a year. Finally, I submit that this is not Chicago. This is Paris! How are people to know that she is an American and not a Frenchwomen? We have the good name of Paris and of France to think of! I demand that she be punished on principle...
Motoring in Cannes, France, with her 2-year-old son Michael John was beauteous Atalanta Arlen (onetime Countess Atalanta Mercati), wife of Novelist Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian). A motorcyclist rammed into the rear of her automobile, was instantly killed. Forced to flee by a mob of Frenchwomen who cursed and threatened her, she was rescued by her husband and a British vice consul...
...particular interest are photographs of Marcel Pagnol, who wrote the French moving-picture "Marius" recently shown in the Geography Building, and of Andre Siegfried, who wrote "America Comes of Age." Other well-known authors represented are Andre Maurois, Jules Romains, and Jean Cocteau. Several Frenchwomen of letters are also shown, including Princess Bibesco and La Comptesse de Noailles...
Nevertheless the Chamber supported Premier Laval's budget policy by a majority of 52. Next the Chamber, for the third time in 13 years, approved giving the vote to Frenchwomen who have never gotten it because of die-hard opposition from the greybeards of the French Senate...