Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pausing occasionally to shake the snow out of her bobbed black locks, Mrs. Jean Springstead Whittemore of Matfield Green, Kans., vivacious Democratic Committeewoman from Puerto Rico and for ten years head of the English Department of Puerto Rico University, fairly crowed over her appointment as collector of customs at San Juan. She made no secret of the fact that she had put the political screws to Postmaster General Farley in an unsuccessful attempt to get the governorship for herself...
...Deputies to turn the matter over to an investigating committee. But the scandal of the Bayonne pawnshop swindler who seemed to have corrupted everyone with whom he came in contact would not die so easily. Four days after he had formed his Ministry, Premier Daladier was forced to dismiss Jean Chiappe as Paris Prefect of Police. When two resignations split his new Cabinet wide open, it seemed almost certain to fall on its first appearance before the Chamber...
...rheumy old Georges Clemenceau who first called dapper, baldish Jean Chiappe "le flic le plus habile de France," "the smartest cop in France." Newspapers like to call the Prefect of Police Little Napoleon, for, like the First Consul, he was born in Corsica. Flic Chiappe went to the Paris prefecture seven years ago after a distinguished career in the Sûreté Générale, the French secret police. It was Jean Chiappe who solved the historic cases of the Hungarian Forgeries and the Rose Diamond of Chantilly...
...Chiappe took charge of the investigation but had little luck until a chambermaid named Suzanne Schlitz felt hungry in a cheap hotel on the Boulevard de Strasbourg. She bit into an apple lying on a table and broke her tooth on the Grand Conde. Within a few days Jean Chiappe had rounded up the entire gang...
Rene Clair's theme is simpler than usual. The two young lovers are finally reunited by the unoriginal trick of having Jean's taxi collide with Anna's flower cart. And yet Mr. Clair succeeds in making his sentimental story uniquely plausible. Japanese lanterns, a cawing band, and dancing couples serve as a background to the first part of the film. We were delighted with the customs of an irrelevant family in this film that was awed on one occasion to find Anne and Jean embraced at their front door and almost proud to see the same exhibition several months...