Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France and Italy into each other's arms, it is no longer polite to remind Italians that French bombing planes from Corsica could be over Rome in less than an hour. Last week three of France's ablest pilots, North Atlantic Flyer Maurice Rossi, South Atlantic Flyer Jean Marmoz, one-time War Ace Paul Girardot, climbed to the controls of three Potez "56"' pursuit planes in Paris last week and took off with Air Minister General Victor Denain and other French officials for Rome...
...rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa's new Governor General Edouard Renard. Last year he indignantly resigned a snug Parisian job as president of the Paris Municipal Council when his good friend Jean Chiappe was forced to quit as Chief of the Paris Police. Soaring with him over the steaming, noisome jungle went his swank second wife, Dutch relict of a U. S. soap manufacturer, Michael Winburn (Omega, Cadum). So far as could be learned, the $390,000 contents of Mme Renard...
...Henri Bergson's sense of motion and change led to the élan vital theory which presents a mysterious, inward, upsurging force as the driving influence of evolution. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck propagated a theory that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Most modern students of evolution take little stock in either Bergsonism or Lamarckism. Yet last week Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, presented a view which seemed to flirt with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes...
...with Les Miserables derives from the silent adaptations made in 1918 and 1927, it may come as a surprise to learn that it is not only a monstrous piece of detective fiction but also the tragedy of a man's struggle with his own fate. It starts when Jean Valjean (Fredric March), represented as a deserving member of the Paris unemployed, is sentenced to the galleys for ten years for stealing a loaf of bread. There he first encounters Javert (Charles Laughton), the police inspector whose morbid fixation on the letter of the law makes him, as long...
...that his artistic mind did not rise. Yet in the ingenuous 1870's his name meant much in the art world. Wounded in the Civil War, he went to Paris to recuperate and study art, spending most of his life thereafter in Europe. A pupil of the painstaking Jean Leon Gerome, Alexandre Cabanel and Edouard Frere, he became one of the most persistent of salon exhibitors. Between 1868 and 1895 Henry Bacon's name appears 25 times on the Beaux Arts lists, his canvases always being hung "on the line." Two of his pictures which became best sellers...