Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based partly upon the case of a Huguenot. Jean Galas, who was executed for murder in Toulouse and partly upon the case of an army officer who was beheaded for treason. Voltaire does not adhere to history at the expense of drama. George Arliss, who likes to be a kind, romantic, dignified old gentleman, makes Voltaire more whimsical than embittered but he gives a dextrously intelligent performance...
...West party went the Prince of Wales's good friend, the Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, in a honey-colored broad cloth coat of her mother's, plumed hat and rhinestone-studded gloves. Equally of the period and all in big feathery hats, the Countess Jean de Polignac, the Duchess d'Harcourt and the Countess Jean de Vogue arrived from Paris' socialite Olympus to agree that only Mrs. Trefusis had transformed herself with complete success into "Diamond Lil" (see cut}. ''Of course I have ideas, but I don't tell them...
...women, continues her narrow pencil-line dresses for daytime, rives a mandarin shape to her knee-length, tailored wool coats. Fur from head to heel is used by all couturiers but Helm swirls it most lavishly around throats, shoulders, hems, hats and capes. Jean Paton turns his peplums upside down to look like stiff upstanding coat tails and features long sleeves, no backs, huge under-chin bows for evening...
Died. Rodolphe Louis Agassiz, 61, Boston banking & mining tycoon, board chairman of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co., onetime international poloist, grandson of the late great Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz; after long illness; in Prides Crossing, Mass., his home since...
...typical Foreign Legion picture, about a medical officer (Victor Jory) who, unjustly convicted of poisoning his major, escapes to a seaside town. After having a liaison with a handsome cabaret hostess (Vivienne Osborne), he meets and falls in love with the fiancee (Loretta Young) of his friend Captain Jean Fabien (David Manners). Bullets and fever, as is usually the case in French North Africa, presently improve the situation. A sick orderly confesses to killing the major, whom no one liked anyway. Fabien gets a bullet and a splendid funeral, at which his fiancee and the surgeon are outstanding mourners...