Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the atmosphere was tense and dramatic last week when the General Assembly of the Bank of France met with its 15 regents to hear the annual report of Governor Jean Samson Tannery. The Governor was appointed just 13 months ago by then Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who instructed him to "loosen up credit" in France and resort to various pump-priming devices. Into the Bank of France swept Jean Samson Tannery, ordered removed the heavy double cur tains favored by his gloom-loving predecessors and installed cheerful, high-power indirect lighting. But that was about all. The regents...
...intoxicating mixture of spooks and nonsensical fun, "The Ghost Goes West", now showing at Keith Memorial, is just about the best thing in the last light-year of film reeled out of Hollywood. Jean Parker, just eighteen and refreshingly demure, is beautifully set by the skill of Rene Clair against the gentle sophistication of Robert Donat. And when haunts stop scaring you and make you laugh, you are bound to laugh twice as hard as usual...
Then along comes Jean Parker, a pretty American girl, and Eugene Pallette, her bleated American father. The befuddlement of Jean over the winning warmth of the ghost, as gallant as ever, and the self-conscious timidity of his living image causes no end of mildly uproarious confusion. But the whole mess is neatly resolved when the castle is moved to Florida, and surrounded by a moat containing Venetian gondolas, to give a European atmosphere...
...newcomer to America, Dmitri Mitropoulos, leader of the Athens Conservatory, comes as conductor to the Boston Symphony during the next two weeks. His program for Friday and Saturday as well as Monday evening consists of Beethoven's "Overture to Leonore No. 2," "Overture for a Don Quixote" by Jean Rivier, Debussy's three symphonic sketches "La Mer", and Strauss's "Symphonia Domestica". Rivier is a modern French composer whose works have received considerable although not unusual praise in Paris during the past eight or ten years. His "Overture for a Don Quixote" is one of his latest endeavors...
...calls a box-office picture, meaning one whose merits, if any, will be revealed at the ticket slot rather than in the comments it will occasion. What will make it box-office is that it evokes, out of the half-forgotten time when pictures could be naughty, the original Jean Harlow...