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...lodrome d'Hiver, Paris' dusty version of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 50,000 Frenchmen welcomed him. While pretty girls collected funds, tossed bouquets of red carnations at the guest of honor, the big meeting sang La Marseillaise (six times), the Internationale (four times). The comrades listened to political speeches by Acting Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who sweated profusely, and ex-Party Secretary Marcel Cachin, who declaimed: "Thorez, like Lenin, is always ahead of the people." Then Thorez walked into the spotlight. He began softly, ended thunderously. His speech was organized around four catch phrases which constituted...
Died. Paul Fratellini, one of the world's greatest clowns, the solemn member of the Three Fratellinis of the Cirques d'Hiver, Medrano and other arenas; in Paris. Wrote France's Minister of the Interior when the Three Fratellinis were awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor: "I congratulate you heartily in the name of all the little children of Paris, whose joy you are, and also in the name of their lathers, those other big children, whom we call...
...Paris a year ago last July, in the Vélodrome d'Hiver and the Parc-des-Princes, gathered 75,000 young people whose berets and uniforms, naming torches and fluttering banners made them look like any horde of young Communists, Nazis or Fascists. But they knelt before a cross, and the good grey Archbishop of Paris, Jean Cardinal Verdier, said to them: "You have sworn to effect that miracle upon which in our timidity we had no longer counted." The 75,000 were Jocists, members of JOC (Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne-Christian Working Youth), celebrating...
...fights with the late William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, one in London and one in Paris, both of which ended in fouls. In 1931 he built his,Palais des Sports, patterned on Tex Richard's Madison Square Garden, on the site of the old Velodrome d'Hiver. Tex Rickard was proud of his "600 Millionaires." Jeff Dickson organized a "Club de Mille" whose members have their own clubroom and bar in the Palais des Sports. By this time he had achieved the unprecedented distinction of being made a member of the boxing boards of both England and France...
...world, playing golf, meeting people. He found leisure boring and the Fox company thought this play, which it had on file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap. He hums "The Rr-hiver Shannon" and when, with his broad brogue, he asks "What's the matter with Al Smith?" the audiences in Democrat towns start clapping. The picture is a comedy which critics passed off with an indulgent phrase or two when it was given as a play on Broadway last year...