Word: hiver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play of character between a cultured lightweight (female) and a six-day bicycle-rider, and between the lightweight's husband and the rider's street girl is unsatisfying because their faces, not their wits, are in the focus. The scenes are at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris during the closing hours of a six-day bicycle race. Adolphe Menjou, Jetta Goudal and Raymond Griffith offer three of the best performances ever concentrated in one film...
Boxing. The Velodrome D'Hiver in Paris housed pandemonium as different national flags were hoisted to herald fistic victories. Knockouts being infrequent, room was found for argument over the judges' decisions. Ultimately, the Nations had to be content with this point total, mainly determined by second and third places: United States 38; Great Britain 30; Denmark 20; Argentina 18; Belgium 17; Norway 14; France 7; Canada 7; Italy, Holland, Sweden, each...