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...incidents, none of his characters, are invented; there is none of the usual effort to hand the reader a night-school course in the political-military his tory of the age. Instead he sticks faithfully to a full account of the actual lives and for tunes of two absorbing Frenchwomen...
Moral purging also got under way on the Riviera, where strictly enforced bathing-suit regulations bedecked the bosoms of French society's semi-nude sun cult. In Paris the German military authorities forbade Frenchwomen to use red lacquer on their fingernails on the grounds that it was a demoralizing Jewish-Oriental habit. The Folies-Bergere was scheduled to reopen under German supervision with less exposed anatomy and a German-speaking master of ceremonies...
Five million Frenchmen are now in uniform. Although Germany has some 6,000,000 men under arms, the Reich is almost twice as populous as France, has nothing like the same man power shortage on the home front. Thus there has been for millions of Frenchwomen no question of seeking war work. It has been inescapably bequeathed them by their...
...Factory. Unlike the streets of London, the streets of Paris are not filled with women in war-workers' uniforms. Even the more chic French women's organizations wear no distinctive dress. But, unseen on the streets, thousands of Frenchwomen are in uniform...
...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...